88 VOYAGE OF JUAN DE FUCA. [1592. 



roy had welcomed him, and promised him a great reward ; but that, 

 after waiting in vain for two years, he had stole away to Europe, 

 and, " understanding the noble mind of the queen of England, and 

 of her wars against the Spaniards, and hoping that her majesty 

 would do him justice for his goods lost by Captain Candish, he 

 would be content to go into England, and serve her majesty in that 

 voyage for the discovery perfectly of the north-west passage into 

 the South Sea, if she would furnish him with only one ship of forty 

 tons' burden, and a pinnace ; and that he would perform it in thirty 

 days' time, from one end to the other of the strait." Mr. Lock 

 says that, on receiving this account, he endeavored to interest Sir 

 Walter Raleigh, and other eminent persons in England, in behalf 

 of the Greek pilot, and to have him employed on a voyage such 

 as he proposed to undertake ; but he was unable to do so, and, by 

 the last accounts, the old man was dying in Cephalonia, in 1602. 



These are the most material circumstances respecting Juan de 

 Fuca and his voyage, as related by Mr. Lock, who was an intelli- 

 gent and respectable merchant engaged in the Levant trade.* 

 Other English writers, of the same time, allude to the subject ; but 

 they afford no additional particulars, nor has any thing been since 

 learned, calculated to prove directly even that such a person as 

 Juan de Fuca ever existed. On the contrary, the author of the 

 Introduction to the Journal of Galiano and Valdes, who loses no 

 opportunity to exalt the merits of his countrymen as discoverers, 

 after examining many papers in the archives of the Indies, relating 

 to the period given as the date of the voyage, pronounces the whole 

 to be a fabrication. The account attracted little attention in Eng- 

 land, and was almost unknown, out of that kingdom, until after 

 the publication of the journals of the last expedition of Cook, who 

 conceived that he had, by his examinations on the north-western 

 coasts of America, ascertained its falsehood. More recent exami- 

 nations in that quarter have, however, served to establish a strong 

 presumption in favor of its authenticity and general correctness, 

 so far as the supposed narrator could himself have known ; for 

 they show that the geographical descriptions contained in it are 

 as nearly conformable with the truth, as those of any other account 

 of a voyage written in the early part of the seventeenth century. 



Thus Juan de Fuca says that, between the 47th and 48th 



* He was, for some time, the English consul at Aleppo, and was an intimate friend 

 of Hakluyt, for whom he translated the Decades of Pedro Martir, and furnished other 

 papers published by that collector. 



