Chap, L William Cornelison Schoyten, 6 ] 
(tiled in the original Voyage in Butch , and I knew no 
Right I had to change the Expreffion. It is very pofiible 
that they might call thefe People Negroes in Oppofition to 
the Indians of America , becaufe their Complexions were 
much darker, though far enough from being quite, black. 
Later Difcoveries make thefe People have very different 
Complexions, which fhews, that there are many Nations 
in thofe Parts of various Flues, that intermix with each 
other ; and, as all Accounts agree, that thefe People are 
much better (killed in Navigation than the Inhabitants 
of America were at the Time that Country was firft 
found out, it fhould feem, that. People, who have 
fo much Commerce amongft themfelves, are worth our 
finding out. I fay this lor many Reafons, of which, 
at prefent, I (hall offer but Three. The firft is, that at 
prefent there is a Neceffity of difeovering new Trades, be- 
caufe the old ones feem to be moft of them over- flocked. 
The fecond, that thefe Countries are like to take off a 
great Quantity of our Manufactures, the People going for 
the moft part clothed, and are in a great meafure civilized. 
And, thirdly, as they lie at fo great a Diftance, in pro- 
portion as fuch a Commerce increafes, it mtift have a very 
advantageous Effect with regard to our Navigation and 
Shipping. The only Objection that can be made is, that, 
if the Dutch have negleCted it, there is little Probability 
that we fhall be able to thrive by it •, and to this I fay, 
we (hall very foon make it appear, that the Dutch have not 
fo much negleCted as concealed it ; probably for this 
Reafon, that, being in Pofleffion of a very beneficial 
Trade in the Eafi Indies , and having the Monopoly of the 
Spice Trade, they are rather concerned about the pre- 
venting other Nations from falling into fo beneficial a 
Commerce, than inclined to purfue it themfelves, as having 
lefs need of it than any other Nation in Europe. But, to 
put the Matter out of Difpute, and to fhew, that what- 
ever Reafons either the Dutch or Spaniards may have for 
endeavouring to conceal thefe Southern Lands, it is, how- 
ever, a Matter worthy of our Conffderation, to difeover 
them, 1 (half in the next SeClion, and by way of Ap- 
pendix to this, give the Reader a very large Memorial of 
a Spanifh Difcoverer, who not only conjeCtufed, that thefe 
were fuch Southern Countries, but actually faw, examined^ 
and reported what he met with in them, and what might 
be expeCted from a Trade carried on with their Inhabitants. 
I muff: firft advertife the Reader, that, tho’ I place this Paper 
as an Appendix, yet, in point of Time, the Spanijh was 
prior to the Dutch Difcoverer; but then what he dif- 
covered was concealed for many Y ears, and never could 
come to the Knowledge of Ifaac le Maire ; though, fince 
its Publication, it ferves to demonftrate the Juftice and 
Truth of his Conjectures. Another Reafon for my bring-' 
ing this Memorial in here, rather than poftponing it until 
we come to treat of the Southern Parts of America , is, be- 
caufe it gives great Light to our fubfequent Circum- 
navigations, many Paffages in which would be fcarce in- 
telligible without it. It is certainly right to be very care- 
fill in refpeCt to Method, efpecially in Works of fuch an 
Extent as this ; but as this Rule is founded on the Ne- 
ceffity of making Things clear, by placing them in fuch a 
manner as that they may refieCt Light upon each other, the ; 
very fame Reafon obliges us to dilpenfe with the ftriCt Pro- 
fecution of our Plan, when fuch a Deviation contributes' 
more to the Reader’s Information, than the contrary 
PraClice would have done. 
SECTION X. 
The Voyages of Don Pedro Fernandez de Qu i r o s, for the Difcovery of the Southern 
Continent and IJlands. 
I. j The confiant Practice of the Spanifh Viceroys in the laft Alge to make their Court to their M afters. hr 
endeavouring to make Difcoveries. 2. Don Pedro Fernandez de Qiriros employed to this PurpoJ'e br ike 
Viceroy of Peru, and afterwards 'J'oli cits the Settlement op the Countries he dijeovered at the Court of Spain, 
3. His Dejcription of the Country and People. 4. Phe Beauty, Excellence and Wholjbmenefs of the Climate, 
f. An Account of his taking Poffefiion of this Fourth Part of the World , which he is pie ajed to call La 
Auftrialia del Efpiritu Santo, for the life of the King of Spain, in the Authors own Words. 6 . Other 
Arguments offered in Support of his Propofal , and their Effects. 7. The Subftance of a larger Spanifh 
Memorial ] in which thefe Countries are more particularly dej'eribed. 8. Demo?ifirative Proofs of the 
Truth of his Delations. 9. Phis Account of de Quires confirmed by the fubfequent Experience op later 
DiJ'coverers . 10. Phe Reafons why the Spaniards have changed their Policy , and affebl now to difeourao-e 
Inquiries and Difcoveries op' this port. 11. Phere are Jujjwient Motives to encourage other Nations to 
attempt what the Spaniards, in mere Policy , decline. 
1 . A F T E R the Spaniards had conquered Mexico and 
dJa Peru , they were very deffrous of difeovering 
X- Jr. more diftant Countries ; and the Projeds of the 
famous Chrifiopher Columbus being ftill talked of amongft 
them, and his Notions being daily better underftood, many 
of the Viceroys were deffrous of obliging the King their 
Mailer, enriching themfelves, and acquiring Reputation, by 
becoming the Patrons of great Difcoveries: With this 
View they frequently fitted out Fleets to the North, to the 
Weft, and to the South, in hopes of difeovering the Coun- 
tries between the Eafi and Weft Indies more perfectly ; and of 
thefe Difcoveries they fent over large Accounts into Spain , of 
which we fhall have Occaffon to fpeak copioufly in another 
Place. But, of all the Difcoveries that were, by this means, 
made, that which occafioned moft Difcourfe was, the find- 
ing of the Elands of Solomon by Alvarez de Mendofa , about 
the Year 1527. concerning which Elands the Spaniards 
had very diftinCt Accounts, but deftroyed them all by ex- 
prefs Order from Spain , on the Coming of Sir Francis 
Drake into the South Seas ; but, after that Fear was blown 
over, the Deiire of finding thofe Elands was revived ; and 
this Captain Pedro Fernandez de Efuiros made Two Voy- 
ages for that Purpofe, about the latter End of the Sixteenth 
Century ; but the exaCt Tims does not appear, We know 
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however, that he was patronized and proteCled by the Vice- 
roy of Peru. 
2. This Gentleman Don Pedro made a Voyage to Spain , 
where, in the Year 1609. he prefented feveral Memorials 
to the Court, defiring Affiftance for the Cdnqueft and 
Settlement of thefe new-found Countries, in refpeCt to 
which, he avers, that he had fpent great Sums of Money 
in Fourteen Years Time, and had travelled 20,000 Leagues 
by Sea and Land, in order to bring this Difcovery to bear. 
It is from this Memorial, of which there are ftill feveral 
Copies remaining, fome larger, and fome more concife, 
that we are enabled to give any Account of his Difcoveries, 
In this Memorial, he firft reprefents to his Catholic Ma- 
jefty, that the Continent he defired .to fettle was equal in 
Bignefs to Europe and the Leffier Afia taken together, lying 
all in the Torid Zone, and therefore, in his Opinion, like 
to be extremely rich. He fays, that it ought to be efteemed 
the Fourth-part of the Globe ; but, in this refpeft, his 
Meaning is not very clear. The beft Interpretation, that I 
have mpt with, is this; That he reckons Europe , Afia and 
Africa the Firft Part ; the Eafi Indies the Second ; Ame- 
rica the Third ; and this new-found Country the Fourth. 
As for the Extent of it, he fpeaks partly from his own 
Knowledge, but moftly from Conjecture, having difeovered 
pnly 
