CONTENTS. XV 



by the Comparison of the Native Names of Common Littoral Trees 

 in the Indian Archipelago and in the Pacific Islands — Other similar 

 comparisons — Imitative Words ... ... ... pp. 180-191 



CHAPTER XI. 



THE JOURNAL OF GALLEGO. 



Prefatory Remarts — The Journal — Prologue — Voyage from Peru — Its 

 Length — Crew disheartened — Isle of Jesus — Candelaria Shoals — 

 Arrival at Estrella Harbour — Exploring Cruise cf the Brigantine — 

 Florida, Sesarga, Guadalcanar — Ships proceed to Guadalcanar — 

 Second Cruise of the Brigantine — Malaita, Ulaua, Ugi, St. Christoval 

 — Massacre of the Spaniards at Puerto de la Cruz — Ships proceed 

 to St. Christoval — Capture of a Town — Third Cruise of the Brigan- 

 tine — Conflict at Santa Anna — The Islands aroused — Council of the 

 Captains and Pilots — Decide to return to Peru — Heading Northward 

 — Reflections on the Discoveries and on the Conduct of the Spaniards 

 — In the vicinity of the Gilbert Group — San Bartolomeo identified 

 with the Musquillo Islands — San Francisco I. identified with Wake's 

 I. — Perilous Voyage — Ships separated — Storms and Squalls — Pro- 

 visons failing — The Gambler's Ration — Sickness — Despair — "We 

 resolved to Trust tliat God Would Send us Aid " — " He provided for 

 us in His Great. Mercy " — Old California — The Ships meet at Santiago 

 — Mexican Coast — A strange Scotch People — Peru pp. 192-245 



CHAPTER XIL 



THE STORY OF A LOST ARCHIPELAGO. 



A. Pious Fraud — Drake's appearance in the South Sea — Jealousy of the 

 Spaniards — "It being considered better, as things were then, to let 

 these Islands remain unknown" — " Omne ignotum pro magnifico" 

 Mendana's Expedition to form a Colony in St. Christoval — An un- 

 solved Mystery of the Sea — A Colony formed at Santa Cruz — Mutiny 

 and Disaster — Abandonment — Unsuccessful Attempt to find the 

 Solomon Islands — " All her sails set, and All her People Dead and 

 Rotten " — Quiros leads another Expedition from Peru to reach these 

 Islands — They elude his Search — Jealous Attidude of the Spaniards 

 towards other Nations — Suppression and Destruction of Journals and 

 Documents — Confusion of Geographers — The Existence of the Solo- 

 mon Islands treated as a Romance — Fabulous Accounts — After Two 

 Centuries — Carteret — Bougainville — Surville — Maui elle — Short- 

 land — French and English Geographers — Dentrecasteaux— Jacobs 

 — D'Urville — Boyd — Denham — Melanesian Mission pp. 246-271 



GEOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX. 



Gallego and Figueroa compared — Isle of Jesus — Candelaria Shoals — (^al- 

 lego's Latitudes — Isle of Ramos — Islands between Cape Prieto and 

 Guadalcanar — Islands of San Bartolomeo and San Francisco — List 

 of Islands obtained by Quiros at Taumaco — Eddvstone Rock, &c. 



pp. 272-279 



