NATIVE OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. 



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 

 CONDUCTS THE SHIPS TO MANILLA. 



The progress of discovery now recalls us to Spain. About 



the year 1567, one Alvaro Mendana de Neyra, who had thus 



far lived in complete obscurity, followed his uncle Don Pedro de 



Castro to Lima, in Peru, where he had been appointed governor. 



Mendana, disdaining commerce, and feeling little inclination to 



lead a monotonous life on shore, after the taste he had had during 



the passage of a roving existence upon the water, resolved to 



undertake the discovery of new lands in the name of the King 

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