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straits into the South Sea ; and that, by reason of a mutiny which hap- 

 pened among the soldiers for the misconduct of their captain, that voyage 

 was overthrown, and the ship returned from California to Nova Spania, 

 without any thing done in that voyage ; and that, after their return, the 

 captain was at Mexico punished by justice. 



Also, he said that, shortly after the said voyage was so ill ended, the 

 said viceroy of Mexico sent him out again, in 1592, with a small caravel 

 and a pinnace, armed with mariners only, to follow the said voyage for 

 the discovery of the Straits of Anian, and the passage thereof into the 

 sea, which they call the North Sea, which is our north-west sea ; and that 

 he followed his course, in that voyage, west and north-west in the South 

 Sea, all along the coast of Nova Spania, and California, and the Indies, 

 now called North America, (all which voyage he signified to me in a great 

 map, and a sea card of mine own, which I laid before him,) until he came 

 to the latitude of 47 degrees ; and that, 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 that he passed by divers islands in that sail- 

 ing ; and that, at the entrance of this said strait, there is, on the north- 

 west coast thereof, a great headland or island, with an exceeding high 

 pinnacle, or spired rock, like a pillar, thereupon. 



Also, he said that he went on land in divers places, and that he saw 

 some people on land clad in beasts' skins ; and that the land is very fruit- 

 ful, and rich of gold, silver, pearls, and other things, like Nova Spania. 



And also, he said that he 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 dis- 

 charged his office ; and that, not being armed to resist the force of the 

 savage people that might happen, he therefore set sail, and returned home- 

 wards again towards Nova Spania, where he arrived at Acapulco, anno 

 1592, hoping to be rewarded by the viceroy for this service done in the 

 said voyage. 



Also, he said that, after coming to Mexico, he was greatly welcomed 

 by the viceroy, and had promises of great reward ; but that, having sued 

 there two years, and obtained nothing to his content, the viceroy told him 

 that he should be rewarded in Spain, of the king himself, very greatly, 

 and willed him, therefore, to go to Spain, which voyage he did perform. 



Also, he said that, when he was come into Spain, he was welcomed 

 there at the king's court ; but, after long suit there, also, he could not get 

 any reward there to his content ; and therefore, at length, he stole away 

 out of Spain, and came into Italy, to go home again and live among his 

 own kindred and countrymen, he being very old. 



Also, he said that he thought the cause of his ill reward had of the 

 Spaniards, to be for that they did understand very well that the English 

 nation had now given over all their voyages for discovery of the north- 

 west passage ; wherefore they need not fear them any more to come that 

 way into the South Sea, and therefore they needed not his service therein 

 any more. 



Also, he said that, understanding the noble mind of the queen of 



