Excerpt from A Voyage to New Guinea and the Moluccas, From Balambangan: Including an Account of Magindano, Sooloo, and Other Islands; Illustrated With Copper-Plates, Performed in the Tartargalley, Belonging to the Honourable East India Company, During the Years, 1774, 1775, and 1776 Lopez Vaz relates, that fometime about the year' 1567, Lopez de Caflro, governor of Peru, fent a fleet to difcover certain iflands in the South Sea. Alvarez de Mendanio was general. At the dif tance of 803 leagues, they difcovered between 9 Degrees and 11 Degrees of S. Latitude, fome large iflands; toge ther, eighty leagues in compafs. The greatef't ifland was, accardz'fgg to the fizfifinder, called Gual dalcanal. Here they landed, took a town, and found {mall grains of gold He farther fays, now at the time they thought of fettling thefe iflands, Cap'tain Drake entering the South Seas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.