Quiros 

 writes 

 Memorials. 



CHAPTER XII 



THE SPANISH STORY ENDS 



QUIROS had arrived in Madrid, his two maravedis in 

 pocket for a moment, on the Qth of October, 1607. Poor 

 in purse, he was richer than ever in hope, "a Job in poverty 

 but not in patience." He was " an insignificant ant," 

 he would be content with the wages of a cabin boy, but 

 his cause, like Milton's, was the cause of God and of His 

 Church. 1 During the next seven years he remained in 

 Spain in poverty and in debt possessing not one penny, 

 and owing two thousand five hundred dollars, he somewhere 

 says and he wrote endless Memorials, imploring that he 

 might be sent to complete the mission of which he had 

 made "beginning with such good foundation." "During 

 the first eleven days he had not money to buy ink and paper. 

 He wrote his first Memorial on the fly-leaves of a pamphlet. 

 He printed it by selling his clothes. To finish the second 

 he sold his bedding ; for the third he pawned the Royal 

 Banner under which he had taken possession of Espiritu 

 Santo." 2 When money failed, he wrote copies, and dis- 

 tributed them among Court officials. 



Altogether he wrote fifty Memorials, and drew more 

 than two hundred maps. All the maps have disappeared. 

 In the Dutch translation of one of the Memorials, however, 



World of the . , . 1-11.11 u r\ 



South. there is a map, which, whether drawn by Quires or not, 



seems to represent the geography of the new discovery 



1 " Neither do I fear those dark and stormy nights, looking in the 

 midst of real dangers for undiscovered lands ; and be it known that I 

 also love courts and populous cities, and I give it up all for the service 

 of God only." 



2 Markham, p. xxx. 



The great- 

 ness and the 

 richness of 

 the New 



