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the Church might be placed the cross of orange wood, 

 which had been- set up in the Bay of St. Philip and St. 

 James. And, on the day of the Conception of the Mother 

 of God, the Captain with great solemnity took the cross 

 from the ship to the seashore, where the Franciscans 

 received it on their knees with much devotion, and, forming 

 procession, bore it to the Convent Church, Pedro and 

 Pablo walking on each side with lighted torches. Here 

 it was fastened to the High Altar, with ringings of bells, 

 sound of trumpets, and discharge of guns. " All the 

 people showed their joy, and not less did the captain, 

 although he had desired to go to Rome, and put this 

 cross in the hands of the Pontiff, and tell him that it was 

 the first that had been raised in those new lands in the 

 name of the Catholic Church. He wished to bring the 

 natives as first fruit. It happened that events robbed 

 him of his triumph ; but he gave many thanks to God, 

 through whose goodness he hopes to return the cross to 

 the place whence it came." 



As had been foreseen, the wicked, whom Quiros had 

 refused to punish, wrote to the Viceroy of Mexico, and 

 " sowed many letters all over the land, trying to misre- 

 present and discredit the expedition." Quiros did his Don Quixote 

 best to satisfy people, proclaiming his truthfulness and comes home, 

 zeal. He was kindly received, he says, by the Viceroy 

 and others. But their kindness did~ not extend to the 

 supply of his necessities ; and he departed " without 

 possessing a single dollar to set me on the road." He 

 owed his passage to the kindness of friends, and landed 

 penniless at Cadiz. " I sold my bed," he writes, " to reach 

 San Lucar, where I pawned something else, which enabled 

 me to go to Seville. There I sold all I had left to sustain 

 me." With further help from friends he arrived at Madrid 

 the Qth of October, 1607. He had' two maravedis in pocket, 

 and he gave them to a beggar. Don Quixote was at home. 



Some half year after Quiros came to Madrid, news News from 

 was brought that put new hopes into his heart news Torres - 

 that Torres had arrived at Ternate, and had said that 

 he had coasted along land for eight hundred leagues ! 



