Two works by Alonso Garzón de Tahuste, belonging properly to this period, were lost as manuscripts. They were _Sucesión de prelados y jueces seculares del nuevo reino de Granada_ and _Historia antigua de los Chibchas_. The first of these existed in two copies, one in Madrid, used by Piedrahita, and the other in Bogotá, used by Zamora. Tahuste was born at Timaná about 1558, studied in Bogotá, and was for fifty years Cura Rector of the Cathedral of Bogotá, from 1585. The loss of these and other manuscripts, many of which would have had very little influence on the progress of literature, was to a certain extent due to the lack of facilities for printing in New Granada, and in a measure also to the neglect suffered by collections of books and papers in periods of social disturbance. One of the poems of the last half of the seventeenth century rescued from complete oblivion was the _Poema heroico de San Ignacio_ by Hernando Domínguez Camargo. It was published in Madrid in 1666, although not complete. It was written in octave stanzas, but does not rise above the lower levels of mediocrity.[132] X [Sidenote: Quiros’ Voyages] Interesting narratives of adventure are contained in the third volume of Pedro Fernández de Quiros’ _Historia del descubrimiento de las regiones austriales_, edited by Justo Zaragoza (Madrid, 1876). Parts of the contents of these volumes were published by the Hakluyt Society (London, 1904) in an English translation by Sir Clements Markham, entitled, _The Voyages of Pedro Fernández de Quiros 1595 to 1606_. One of the most striking episodes of this work is the story of the dreadful voyage from the Santa Cruz islands to Manila, setting forth the almost complete destruction of the ship, the death of Adelantado Mendaña, the accession of his widow to the chief command, the starvation and death that exhausted and depleted the crew, and the hungry survivors’ final arrival in the Philippines. Here they were at first uncertain whether they had reached a friendly country or that of an enemy, for it had been reported in Peru, “that Japan was preparing an attack with a great fleet.”[133] [Sidenote: Half-starved crew in the Philippines]