Chapter I: Front Matter

WORKS ISSUED BY
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.

IV.--True Account of the Events of the Voyage that the
Captain Pedro Fernandez de Quiros made to the unknown
Southern lands, by Gaspar de Leza, Chief Pilot of the
said Fleet 321

V.--Torquemada's Account of the Voyage of Quiros 407

VI.--Letter from Luis Vaez de Torres to the King of Spain 455

VII.--Legends on the Four Maps signed by Diego de Prado y
Tobar 469