PROOFS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Original Account of the Voyage of the Greek Pilot Juan 

 de Fuca along the North-West Coasts of America, in 

 1592. 



A Note made by me, Michael Lock the elder, touching tlic Strait of Sea 

 commonly called Fretum Anian, in the South Sea, through the North- 

 West Passage of Meta Incognita.* 



When I was at Venice, in April, 1596, haply arrived there an 

 old man, about sixty years of age, called, commonly, Juan de Fuca, but 

 named properly Apostolos Valerianus, of nation a Greek, born in Cepha- 

 lonia, of profession a mariner, and an ancient pilot of ships. This man, 

 being come lately out of Spain, arrived first at Leghorn, and went thence 

 to Florence, where he found one John Douglas, an Englishman, a famous 

 mariner, ready coming for Venice, to be pilot of a Venetian ship for 

 England, in whose company they came both together to Venice. And 

 John Douglas being acquainted with me before, he gave me knowledge 

 of this Greek pilot, and brought him to my speech; and, in long talks 

 and conference between us, in presence of John Douglas, this Greek 

 pilot declared, in the Italian and Spanish languages, thus much in effect 

 as followeth : — 



First, he said that he had been in the West Indies of Spain forty 

 years, and had sailed to and from many places thereof, in the service of 

 the Spaniards. 



Also, he said that he was in the Spanish ship which, in returning 

 from the Islands Philippinas, towards Nova Spania, was robbed and 

 taken at the Cape California by Captain Candish, Englishman, whereby 

 he lost sixty thousand ducats of his own goods. 



Also, he said that he was pilot of three small ships which the viceroy 

 of Mexico sent from Mexico, armed with one hundred men, under a cap- 

 tain, Spaniards, to discover the Straits of Anian, along the coast of the 

 South Sea, and to fortify in that strait, to resist the passage and proceed- 

 ings of the English nation, which were feared to pass through those 



* Extracted from the Pilgrims of Samuel Purchas, vol. iii. p. 849. The orthogra- 

 phy of the English is modernized. The -letters inserted are, however, given in their 

 original lingua Franca. See p. 87 of the History. 



