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

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

Pedro Fernandes de Queirós

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  • Book language: English
  • 297 pages

This is the first volume of the Hakluyt Society's translated edition of Pedro Fernandes de Queirós's Pacific voyage accounts from 1595 to 1606, edited by Sir Clements Markham. It recounts Spanish expeditions in search of Terra Australis and their encounters across the Pacific. It offers a firsthand window into early maritime exploration and colonial ambition.

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WORKS ISSUED BY
The Hakluyt Society.
THE VOYAGES
OF
PEDRO FERNANDEZ DE QUIROS,
1595 TO 1606.
SECOND SERIES.
No. XIV.
Original Title Page.
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.

London:

Printed at the Bedford Press, 20 and 21, Bedfordbury, W.C.

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
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Contents

  1. COUNCIL OF THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.
  2. Contents.
  3. DEDICATION.
  4. Introduction.
  5. Comparative List of Maps of the New Hebrides, etc., 1570–1904.
  6. Bibliography, With British Museum Press-marks.
  7. NARRATIVE OF THE Second Voyage OF THE Adelantado Alvaro de Mendaña, BY THE CHIEF PILOT, PEDRO FERNANDEZ DE QUIROS.1
  8. Second Voyage of Alvaro de Mendaña. Chapter I.
  9. Chapter II.
  10. Chapter III.
  11. Chapter IV.
  12. Chapter V.
  13. Chapter VI.
  14. Chapter VII.
  15. Chapter VII.
  16. Chapter VIII.
  17. Chapter IX.
  18. Chapter X.
  19. Chapter XI.
  20. Chapter XII.
  21. Chapter XIII.
  22. Chapter XIV.
  23. Chapter XV.
  24. Chapter XVI.
  25. Chapter XVII.
  26. Chapter XVIII.
  27. Chapter XIX.
  28. Chapter XX.
  29. Chapter XXI.
  30. Chapter XXII.

and 63 more chapters

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