THE STORY OF A LOST ARCHIPELAGO.
A Pious Fraud--Drake’s appearance in the South Sea--Jealousy of the
Spaniards--“It being considered better, as things were then, to let
these Islands remain unknown”--“Omne ignotum pro magnifico” Mendana’s
Expedition to form a Colony in St. Christoval--An unsolved Mystery of
the Sea--A Colony formed at Santa Cruz--Mutiny and Disaster--
Abandonment--Unsuccessful Attempt to find the Solomon Islands--“All
her sails set, and All her People Dead and Rotten”--Quiros leads
another Expedition from Peru to reach these Islands--They elude his
Search--Jealous Attitude of the Spaniards towards other Nations--
Suppression and Destruction of Journals and Documents--Confusion of
Geographers--The Existence of the Solomon Islands treated as a Romance
--Fabulous Accounts--After Two Centuries--Carteret--Bougainville--
Surville--Maurelle--Shortland--French and English Geographers--
Dentrecasteaux--Jacobs--D’Urville--Boyd--Denham--Melanesian
Mission pp. 246-271
GEOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX.
Gallego and Figueroa compared--Isle of Jesus--Candelaria Shoals--
Gallego’s Latitudes--Isle of Ramos--Islands between Cape Prieto and
Guadalcanar--Islands of San Bartolomeo and San Francisco--List of
Islands obtained by Quiros at Taumaco--Eddystone Rock, &c. pp. 272-279