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The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595 to 1606. Volume 1Queirós, Pedro Fernandes de

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The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595 to 1606. Volume 1

Name: The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595 to 1606. Volume 1
Author: Queirós, Pedro Fernandes de

Queirós, Pedro Fernandes de

Discoveries in geography -- Spanish; Early maps; Mendaña de Neira, Alvaro de, 1542?-1595; Oceania -- Discovery and exploration

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                          The Hakluyt Society.

                              THE VOYAGES
                                   OF
                       PEDRO FERNANDEZ DE QUIROS,
                             1595 TO 1606.

                             SECOND SERIES.
                                No. XIV.







                              THE VOYAGES
                                   OF
                       PEDRO FERNANDEZ DE QUIROS,
                             1595 TO 1606.

                         Translated and Edited
                                   BY
                         SIR CLEMENTS MARKHAM,
                           K.C.B., P.R.G.S.;
                   PRESIDENT OF THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.

                        IN TWO VOLUMES.--VOL. I.

                                LONDON:
                    PRINTED FOR THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.

                               M.DCCCCIV.







                                COUNCIL
                                   OF
                          THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.


    Sir Clements Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S., Pres. R.G.S., President.
    The Right Hon. the Lord Amherst of Hackney, Vice-President.
    Rear-admiral Sir William Wharton, K.C.B., F.R.S., Vice-President.
    Colonel George Earl Church.
    Sir William Martin Conway.
    George William Forrest, C.I.E.
    William Foster, B.A.
    F. H. H. Guillemard, M.A., M.D.
    The Right Hon. the Lord Hawkesbury.
    Edward Heawood, M.A.
    John Scott Keltie, LL.D.
    Frederic William Lucas.
    Admiral Sir Albert Hastings Markham, K.C.B.
    Mowbray Morris.
    Commr. John Franklin Parry, R.N.
    Edward John Payne, M.A.
    Ernest George Ravenstein.
    Admiral of the Fleet Sir F. W. Richards, G.C.B.
    Henry William Trinder.
    Richard Stephen Whiteway.

    Basil H. Soulsby, B.A., Honorary Secretary.






CONTENTS.


VOLUME I.

                                                                    Page

    Dedication                                                        ix
    Introduction                                                      xi
    Note on the Cartography of the Southern Continent.
    By B. H. Soulsby                                              xxxvii

        I.--Narrative of the Second Voyage of the Adelantado
            Alvaro de Mendaña, by the Chief Pilot Pedro Fernandez
            de Quiros                                                  3

       II.--Narrative of the Voyage of the Adelantado Alvarez de
            Mendaña de Niera for the Discovery of the Islands of
            Solomon, written by the Chief Pilot Pedro Fernandez
            de Quiros for Don Antonio de Morga, Lieutenant-General
            of the Philippines                                       149

      III.--Narrative of the Voyage of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros
            in 1606, for the Discovery of the Austrial Regions       161


VOLUME II.

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The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595 to 1606. Volume 1

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