1592.] VOYAGE OF JUAN DE FUCA. 87 



Fretum Anian, in the South Sea, through the North-west Passage of 

 Meta Incognita" — published in 1625, in the celebrated historical 

 and geographical collection called The Pilgrims, by Samuel 

 Purchas.* 



Mr. Lock there relates that he met, at Venice, in April, 1596, 

 "an old man, about sixty years of age, called, commonly, Juan de 

 Fuca, but named, properly, Apostolos Valerianos, of nation a 

 Greek, born in Cephalonia, of profession a mariner, and an ancient 

 pilot of ships," who, " in long talks and conferences," declared that_ 

 he had been in the naval service of Spain, in the West Indies, forty 

 years, and that he was one of the crew of the galleon Santa Anna, 

 when she was taken by Cavendish, near Cape San Lucas, in 1587, 

 on which occasion " he had lost sixty thousand ducats of his own 

 goods." After his return to Mexico, he was despatched, by the 

 viceroy, with three vessels, "to discover the Strait of Anian, along 

 the coast of the South Sea, and to fortify that strait, to resist the 

 passage and proceeding of the English nation, which were feared 

 to pass through that strait into the South Sea." This expedition, 

 however, proving abortive, he was again sent, in 1592, with a small 

 caravel, for the same purpose, in which " he followed his course 

 west and north-west," along the coasts of Mexico and California, 

 " until he came to the latitude of 47 degrees ; and, there finding 

 that the land trended north and north-east, with a broad inlet of 

 sea, between 47 and 48 degrees of latitude, he entered thereinto, 

 sailing therein more than twenty days, and found that land trending 

 still sometime north-west, and north-east, and north, and also east, 

 and south-eastward, and very much broader sea than was at the 

 said entrance, and he passed by divers islands in that sailing ; and, 

 at the entrance of this said strait, there is, on the north-west coast 

 thereof, a great head-land or island, with an exceeding high pinna- 

 cle, or spired rock, like a pillar thereupon. * * * * Being entered 

 thus far into the said strait, and being come into the North Sea 

 already, and finding the sea wide enough every where, and to be 

 about thirty or forty leagues wide in the mouth of the straits, where 

 he entered, he thought he had now well discharged his office ; and 

 that, not being armed to resist the force of the savage people that 

 might happen, he therefore set sail, and returned to Acapulco." 



The Greek went on to say that, upon his arrival in Mexico, the vice- 



* The whole note will be found among the Proofs and Illustrations, in the latter 

 part of this volume, under the letter A. 



