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CHAPTER XXIX.— The Fiction of El Dorado— Manoa— Description of its 

 Fabled Splendors — Attempts of the Spaniards to Discover it — Sir Walter Ra- 

 leigh — His Voyage to Guiana — His Account of the Orinoco — His Description 

 of the Scenery — His Return — His Second Voyage —Expedition to Newfound- 

 land — His Death — Modern Interpretation of the Legend of El Dorado 297 



CHAPTER XXX. — Discovery of the Solomon Islands by Mendana — He seeks 

 for them again Thirty Years later — Quiros — The Marquesas Islands — The 

 Women compared with those of Lima — Strange Fruits — Conversions to Chris- 

 tianity — Arduous Voyage — Santa Cruz — Mendana exchanges Names with 

 Malope — Hostilities — War, and its Results — Death of Mendana — Quiros con- 

 ducts the Ships k> Manilla 305 



CHAPTER XXXL— Attempts of the Dutch to discover a Northeast Passage- 

 Voyage of Wilhelm Barentz — Arrival at Nova Zembla — Winter Quarters — 

 Building a House — Fights with Bears — The Sun Disappears — The Clock Stops, 

 and the Beer Freezes — The House is Snowed up — The Hot-Ache — Fox-Traps 

 — Twelfth Night — Return of the Sun — The Ships prove Unseaworthy — Pre- 

 parations to Depart in the Boats— Death of Barentz — Arrival at Amsterdam 

 — Results of the Voyage , 312 



CHAPTER XXXIL— The Five Ships of Rotterdam— Battle at the Island of 

 Brava — Sebald de Weert — Disasters in the Strait of Magellan — The Crew 

 eat Uncooked Food — The Fleet is scattered to the Winds — Adventures of De 

 Weert — A Wretched Object — Return to Holland — Voyage of Oliver Van Noort 

 ^-Barbarous Punishment — The Emblem of Hope becomes a Cause of Despair 

 — Fight with the Patagonians — Arrest of the Vice-Admiral — His Punishment 

 — Description of a Chilian Beverage — Capture of a Spanish Treasure-Ship — 

 A Pilot thrown Overboard — Sea-Fight off Manilla — Return Home, after the 

 First Dutch Voyage of Circumnavigation 323 



CHAPTER XXXIIL— Quiros' Theory of a Southern Continent— His Arguments 

 and Memorials — His First Voyage — Discoveries — Encarnacion — Sagittaria, or 

 Tahiti — Description of these Islands — Manicolo — Espiritu Santo — Its Produc- 

 tions and Inhabitants — Quiros before the King of Spain — His Belief in his 

 Discovery of a Continent — His Disappointment — Renewed Solicitations — 

 Death of Quiros — Discoveries of Torres — The Muscovy Company of London — 

 Henry Hudson — His Voyages to Spitzbergen and Nova Zembla — His Voyage 

 to America — Casts Anchor at Sandy Hook — Ascends the Hudson River as far 

 as the Site of Albany — His Voyage to Iceland and Hudson's Bay — Disastrous 

 Winter — Mutiny — Hudson set adrift — His Death... 336 



CHAPTER XXXIV.— The Fleet of Joris Spilbergen— Arrival in Brazil— Adven- 

 tures in the Strait of Magellan — Trade at Mocha Island — Treachery at Santa 

 Maria — Terrible Battle between the Dutch and Spanish Fleets — Ravages of 

 the Coast — Skirmishes upon the Land — Spilbergen sails for Manilla — Arrival 

 at Ternate — His Return Home — The Voyage of Schouten and Lemaire — 

 Lemonade at Sierra Leone — A Collision at Sea — Discovery of Staten Land — 

 Cape Horn — Lemaire's Strait — Arrival at Batavia — Confiscation of the Ships 

 ■ — General Results of the Voyage — The Voyage of William Baffin — Arctic 

 Researches during the Seventeenth Century , 348 



