Produced by Chris Pinfield and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber's Note. Apparent typographical errors have been corrected. Ligatures have been removed. Italics are indicated by _underscores_. Small capitals have been replaced by full capitals. A phrase in blackletter font is indicated by +plus signs+. _Terra Australis Incognita_: OR, A New Southern DISCOVERY, CONTAINING A Fifth Part of the WORLD; Lately found out by FERDINAND DE QUIR. A _Spanish_ Captain. Printed in the Year 1617; And now Re-printed. [Illustration: Gemino facit commercia Mundo] _LONDON_: Printed for +William Bray+ in _Exeter-Court_, near _Exeter-Change_ in the _Strand_. THE Copy of a PETITION Presented to the KING of _Spain_, BY _Capt._ Peter Ferdinand de Quir, _touching the Discovery of the Fifth part of the World, called_ Terra Australis Incognita, _and of the great Riches and Fertility of the same_. SIR, I am called Captain _Peter Ferdinand De Quir_, a most humble Servant and Subject of your Majesty's, who in all Submission do shew unto you, that this is the Eighth Petition, which by me hath been presented to your Majesty's View, to perswade the Conduction of some Colonies, unto the Land which your Majesty hath commanded to be discovered in the Country of _Terra Australis incognita_: And yet to this Hour no Resolution is taken in this Affair, neither have I received any Answer or Hope, whereby I might rest assured to obtain my Dispatch, although I have attended Fourteen Months in your Court, and have employ'd Fourteen Years in this Discovery, unto the which I have been induced by the meer Goodness of the Cause, and in the Assuredness of the same have obdurated my self against all Difficulties and Contradictions whatsoever. I have desperately exposed my self to a thousand Perils both by Sea and Land, I have diminished and sunk my Estate, I have been travailed with many Afflictions in my Person, and suffered such strange and extraordinary Crosses, that they seem almost incredible to my self; and all, that so Religious an Undertake should not unworthily be abandoned. In regard whereof, I do most humbly beseech your Majesty in the Bowels of the Divine Charity, that you would be pleased to take Order, that I be not deprived of the Fruits of this Design, which with such Instance I do desire, and which with so much Justice are due unto my continual Pains and Travel: Nor that I be debarr'd from the Effects of so considerable and well-grounded a Request, whose principal Scope is the Glory of God, and of your Majesty, and from whence infinite Benefits are likely to issue forth, which will live as long as the Fabrick of the World shall subsist, and after the Dissolution thereof, will remain to all Eternity.