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APPENDIX VI

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2010

Antonio de Morga
Translated by
Henry E. J. Stanley
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LETTER OF LUIS VAEZ DE TORRES TO HIS MAJESTY, RELATING HIS VOTAGE THROUGH THE TORRES STRAITS, DATED MANILA, JULY 12, 1607; RECEIVED JUNE 22, 1608.

(J 2, Biblioteca National, Madrid, apparently a copy of a document mentioned by Navarrete as existing in Simancas.)

As I find myself in this city of Manila at the end of a year and a half of navigation and discovery among the lands and seas of the unknown southern parts; and since until now they have not been pleased in this Royal Audiencia of Manila to despatch me, in order to finish the voyage as Your Majesty ordered; and as I was in the hope of being the first to give Your Majesty a relation of what has been discovered, with the rest, and as I am detained without knowing whether they will despatch me from this city of Manila, I have chosen to send a person to give an account to Your Majesty, who is Fray Juan de Merlo, of the order of St. Francis, one of the three monks whom I brought at my charge; which relation he will give to Your Majesty as a person who was present at all; which account, on my part, is the following:

We left the port of Callao, of the city of the Kings, of Peru, on the 21st December, with two ships and a launch, in the year six hundred and five: the chief of them was Captain Pero Fernandez de Quiros, and I as his second in command.

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The Philippine Islands, Moluccas, Siam, Cambodia, Japan, and China, at the Close of the Sixteenth Century , pp. 402 - 424
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1868

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  • APPENDIX VI
  • Antonio de Morga
  • Translated by Henry E. J. Stanley
  • Book: The Philippine Islands, Moluccas, Siam, Cambodia, Japan, and China, at the Close of the Sixteenth Century
  • Online publication: 05 October 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511707803.019
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  • APPENDIX VI
  • Antonio de Morga
  • Translated by Henry E. J. Stanley
  • Book: The Philippine Islands, Moluccas, Siam, Cambodia, Japan, and China, at the Close of the Sixteenth Century
  • Online publication: 05 October 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511707803.019
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  • APPENDIX VI
  • Antonio de Morga
  • Translated by Henry E. J. Stanley
  • Book: The Philippine Islands, Moluccas, Siam, Cambodia, Japan, and China, at the Close of the Sixteenth Century
  • Online publication: 05 October 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511707803.019
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