The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez De Quiros, Vol. 1 of 2: 1595 to 1606 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez De Quiros, Vol. 1 of 2: 1595 to 1606

The second narrative is by Gaspar Gonzalez de Leza, the Chief Pilot of the Capitana with Quiros. For the most part it is merely a log, with courses, distances run, winds, and latitudes for each day, with occasional calculations of the distance from Callao. But it also contains accounts of the visits to the newly-discovered islands, and some remarks ofinterest, which may be compared with the same events described by Quiros, and in the work of Torquemada. The manuscript is in the Royal Library at Madrid (j. And Lord Stanley of Alderley quoted largely from it, in annotating the letter of Torres. But it was first printed by Zaragoza.

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