The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros By Pedro Fernández de Quirós

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Excerpt The Council of the Hakluyt Society has decided that the volumes containing the narratives of the discovery of the Solomon Islands by Menda a shall be followed by a monograph on the two voyages of Quiros In the first voyage he was Chief Pilot to Menda a the second and most famous voyage was under his own command. The voyages of pedro fernandez de quiros review The best and most detailed narrative of both voyages is contained in a work which remained in manuscript until twenty eight years ago when it was edited and published at Madrid by Don Justo Zaragoza It is entitled History of the Discovery of the Austrial Regions made by the General Pedro Fernandez de Quiros. The voyages of pedro fernandez de quiros review 1 Two copies were known to be in existence one in the private library of the King of Spain the other in that of the Ministry of Marine Both have erroneous titles written by careless librarians The narratives were evidently dictated by Quiros or written from his notes but Se or Zaragoza gives reasons for the belief that the work in its present form was written by Luis de Belmonte Bermudez aoung man who was Secretary to Quiros during the voyage of 1606 and that xii it contains several passages for which the Secretary was alone responsible Belmonte Bermudez remained faithful to Quiros in his adversity and after his master s death he became a poet of some celebrity Se or Zaragoza quotes several passages which show the hand of a poet. The voyages of pedro fernandez de quiros ebook free 2 There is also a quotation from the Araucana of Ercilla on unknown lands not yet revealed by God to which is added another version by theoung sailor poet on those unknown lands now revealed by God.3 The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros.