CHAPTER XIII 



THE COMING OF THE ENGLISH AND THE DUTCH 



AUTHORITIES : 



The Voyage of John Huyghen van Linschoten to the East Indies, 



ed. BURNELL and TIELE (Hakluyt Society). 

 HUNTER'S History of British India. 

 MOTLEY'S Dutch Republic. 

 HEERES' Part borne by the Dutch in the Exploration of Australia. 



THE enterprise of the South had been a Franciscan mission, 

 and the Franciscans of Peru were determined to do all 

 possible to prevent its abandonment. They wrote Mem- 

 orials to the King which may still be read in the British 

 Museum ; and they persuaded Don Juan Luis Arias, The treatise 

 an advocate of Santiago de Chili, to sum up their arguments of Arias - 

 in a treatise that is an interesting illustration of the mind 

 of religious Spain. 1 



The writer explains the physical argument which proves 

 that a Southern Continent exists. He brings together the 

 facts which indicate that, at various points, this continent The evidence 

 had actually been touched. He attaches much import- southern 

 ance to a story that Juan Fernandez, the discoverer Continent 

 of the famous island, had also discovered, somewhere e ^ 

 between West and South- West of Chili, " a very fertile 

 and agreeable continent, inhabited by a white well-pro- 

 portioned people of our own height, well-clad and of a 

 peaceful and gentle disposition." The failure of Quiros, 

 he argues, was due to his " great mistake " in refusing 

 to sail Southward of 26 ; where, says the writer " they 



1 Early Voyages to Australia, ed. Major ; Voyages of Quiros, ed. 

 Markham. 



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