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"This same day, the General landed with all the soldiers and 

 self; and he took possession of this island in the name of His 

 Majesty as in the case of the otlier islands. A cross was erected on 

 a little eminence that was there ; and we all paid our adoration. 

 Some Indians, who stood near to look on, commenced to discharge 

 their arrows ; and some shots were fired at them, by which two 

 Indians were killed ; and so they left us and fled, and we embarked 

 for that niojht. 



" On the following morning, when we intended to land to say 

 mass, we noticed that the Indians had pulled up the cross and had 

 carried it off. On account of their audacity, the General ordered the 

 soldiers to get themselves ready to go in search of the cross and to 

 put it in its place : and whilst they were going ashore in the boat, 

 we saw the Indians return and endeavour to set it up. When it 

 was in its place, they went away ; but it appeared that they had not 

 thrust it in sufficiently, and it fell. Presentlj^ the same men at- 

 tempted to erect it ; but, from fear of us, they did not stop to set it 

 up quite straight and fled; and herewith our people reached the 

 shore and diijembarked. The General sent Pedro Sarraiento with 

 some soldiers to look at the cross ; whilst he himself remained on 

 the beacb with the rest of the people. On reaching there, they 

 found that the cross was not upright; and the}^ placed it as it was 

 at first. Pedro Sarmiento then returned, and they all embarked and 

 came back to the ships. 



" In order not to lose time, I gave the order to repair the brigan- 

 tine, as she was very leaky. She was repaired accordingly ; and 

 then it was determined that Don Fernando Henriquez, the chief- 

 ensign (alferez general), and I, the said Hernan Gallego, should go 

 in the brigantine with 30 soldiers and sailors to discover the re- 

 mainino- lands of the same island of Guadalcanal. On the 19th of 

 May, we sailed in the brigantine along the coast of the said island 

 which is named, in the language of the natives, Sabo.^ And on the 

 same day, the General sent Andres Nunez with 30 soldiers to see 

 what the land possessed, and to endeavour to make a search in 

 cracks or broken ground, because the miners, who understood it, 

 said that it was a land for gold. And so they carried out this 



1 The name of Savo is at the present day given to the volcanic island, named by the 

 Spaniards, Sesarga, which lies off the north-west coast of Guadalcanar : Savuli is the name 

 of a village at the west end of Guadalcanar {vide map in Dr. Codriiigton's "Melanesian 

 Languages " ). 



