40 L. HARGRAVE. 



They thought that she might have passed to the north, but 

 hopes of seeing her again were very faint, and the frigate 

 returned to Mendana without any tidings of Lope de Vega. 

 On September 21st Mendana found a port at Santa Cruz, 

 which he named La Graciosa, and made an attempt at 

 colonization, but what with the hostility of the natives, 

 sickness, and a mutinous spirit, the colony did not progress, 

 and here Mendana died. 



You will observe there was a mutinous spirit, at which 

 no surprise need be felt as Mendana was an old man and 

 had obviously kept the fleet jogging along in about 10° 

 S. Latitude : Oallao 11° 50' S. Lat., Marquesas 8° 53' S. Lat., 

 Santa Cruz 11° 0' S. Lat. Making 115° of Longitude with 

 a brisk S.E. trade wind on his quarter, and crowds of young 

 Spaniards on board spoiling for the sack of the Great 

 Southern Continent. Make no mistake about the young 

 Spaniards of Peru. They were the second and third gener- 

 ation of the conquerors who slew Atahuallpa, crossed with 

 the best women of the Inca race. Garcilasso de la Vega 

 came to Peru with Pedro cle Alverado. His son, who sub- 

 scribes himself Garcilasso Inca de la Vega, and was born at 

 Cuzco in 1540, was the historian. The historian's mother 

 was of Peruvian blood royal, she was niece of Huayna 

 Capac and grand-daughter of Tupac Inca Yupanqui. Then 

 there was Vaca de Castro, who went to Peru to appear 

 before Pizarro in the capacity of a royal judge. Prescott 

 has much to say of the doings of these people, but all of it 

 points to everyone on Lope de Vega's ship being dark 

 beyond swarthiness. What efforts must have been made 

 to get Mendana to luff, but all were of no avail. However, 

 sometime previously to the discovery of Santa Cruz, Lope 

 de Vega parted company. 



If this had happened in 160° W. Longitude, New Zealand 

 might have been found, but we know it was not, or it 



