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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 ; and he willed me so to write to England. 



And, upon conference had twice with the said Greek pilot, I did write 

 thereof, accordingly, to England, unto the right honorable the old Lord 

 Treasurer Cecil, and to Sir Walter Raleigh, and to Master Richard Hak- 

 luyt, that famous cosmographer, certifying them hereof. And I prayed 

 them to disburse one hundred pounds, to bring the said Greek pilot into 

 England with myself, for that my own purse would not stretch so wide at 

 that time. And I had answer that this action was well liked and greatly 

 desired in England; but the money was not ready, and therefore this 

 action died at that time, though the said Greek pilot, perchance, liveth 

 still in his own country, in Ccphalonia, towards which place he went 

 within a fortnight after this conference had at Venice. 



And, in the mean time, while I followed my own business in Venice, 

 being in a lawsuit against the Company of Merchants of Turkey, to re- 

 cover my pension due for being their consul at Aleppo, which they held 

 from me wrongfully, and when I was in readiness to return to England, 

 I thought I should be able of my own purse to take with me the said 

 Greek pilot; and therefore I wrote unto him from Venice a letter, dated 

 July, 1596, which is copied here under : — 



* " Al Mag 00, Sig or * Capitan Juan de Fuca, Piloto de India, amigo mio 

 char" 10 - en Zefalonia. 



" MlTY HONRADO SeNNOR, 



" Siendo yo para buelverme en Inglatierra dentre de pocas 

 mezes, y accuerdandome de lo trattado entre my y V. M. en Venesia 

 sobre el viagio de las Indias, me ha parescido bien de scrivir esta carta 

 a V. M. para que se tengais animo de andar con migo, puedais escribirme 

 presto en que maniera quereis consertaros. Y puedais embiarmi vuestra 

 carta con esta nao Ingles, que sta al Zante (sino hallais otra coiuntura 

 meior) con el sobrescritto que diga en casa del Sennor Eleazar Hyc- 

 man, mercader Ingles, al tragetto de San Tomas en Venisia. Y Dios 

 guarde la persona de V. M. Fecha en Venesia al primer dia de Julio, 

 1596 annos. C£ Amieo de y m 



° !< Michael Lock, Ingles." 



* To the Magnificent Captain Juan de Fuca, Pilot of the Indies, my most dear friend 



in Cephalonia. 

 Most Honored Sir, 



Being about to return to England in a few months, and recollecting what 

 passed between you and myself, at Venice, respecting the voyage to the Indies, I 

 have thought proper to write you this letter, so that, if you have a mind to go with 

 me, you can write me word directly how you wish to arrange. You may send me your 

 letter by this English vessel, which is at Zante, (if you should find no better op- 

 portunity,) directed to the care of Mr. Eleazer Hyckman, an English merchant, St 

 Thomas Street, Venice. God preserve you, sir. 



Your friend, 



Michael Lock, of England. 

 Venice, July 1st, 1596. 52 



