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Fernandes de Quirós y le acabo El Capitán Don Diego de Prado con Asistencia del Capitán Luis Vaez de Torres en la nao San Pedrico hasta la ciudad de Manila el 2 de mayo de 1608 a horna y gloria del omnipotente. Handwritten by Diego de Prado, certified and signed by all officials of the nao, including Captain Váez de Torres on Manila on 6 June 1608. Original document published electronically by New South Wales State library. Page 1, line 17. "De la nao almiranta San Pedrico será Capitán Don Luis Váez de Torres, bretón" (Of the nao almiranta San Pedrico it will be captain Don Luis Váez de Torres, bretón). Page 1 available (latest access 01/10/2013 at
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departed intentionally, saying "it was not possible for us to find them, for they did not sail on the proper course, nor with good intention". Later, although Torres's crew was displeased with Torres's decisions, a full-scale mutiny did not happen; Torres says his "condition was different to that
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in close and sometimes violent contact with local indigenous people. Prado and Torres both record the capture of twenty people, including a woman who gave birth several weeks later. From these islands, Torres sailed along the southern coast of New Guinea reaching
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Account of the Discovery started by Pero Fernandes de Quirós and that was Finished by Captain Diego de Prado y Tovar with the assistance of Captain Luis Váez de Tores on the nao San Pedrico until the city of Manila 20 May 1608 for honouring and glorifying the
593:. Estensen notes that Don Diego de Prado y Tovar, a Spanish nobleman who accompanied Torres, refers to him in his account as a "Breton". Estensen points out that Spaniards then colloquially called Galicians Bretons, and that, therefore, Torres was almost certainly from Galicia.
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became separated from the other ships in bad weather and was unable (or so he later said) to return to safe anchorage at
Espiritu Santo. In reality, the crew mutinied, with the unfavorable wind conditions just giving them an opportunity to do so. The captain on the
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The charts are the coloured maps 5,6 and 9.(Map 9 is incorrectly titled "Moresby's Map of the
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during the 19th century. At the sale of some of
Phillipps' manuscripts by Sotheby's, London, on 26 June 1919 it was purchased by booksellers Henry Stevens, Son and Stiles who sold it to English collector Sir
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named Don Diego de Prado, aware of the crew's plans, had already transferred to Torres's ship, and so did the expedition's surgeon. Queirós' ship, with Queirós being held in his cabin, then sailed to
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December 1613, indicating he had taken the Portuguese route home. Some time afterwards he is described as "a monk of our father Saint Basil the Great of Madrid." Estensen, M. (2006) p.219
622:"The Celtic zones par excellence, however, continued to be Galicia and Portugal." 'A history of Spain from the beginnings to the present day' by Rafael Altamira; translated by Muna Lee, 1966
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Torres followed the coastline of New Guinea, and claimed possession of the island in the name of the King of Spain on 18 October 1606. On 27 October he reached the western extremity of
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7 to 8 months prior, while Torres never claimed that he had sighted the southern continent. "Here there are very large islands, and more to the south" he wrote.
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146:in Spanish
136:San Pedrico
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712:Austrialia
495:Philip III
463:James Cook
412:New Guinea
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66:Australian
46:Portuguese
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512:Philip IV
357:Australia
353:Cape York
301:Milne Bay
181:neologism
542:See also
226:Acapulco
58:maritime
42:Galician
400:Ternate
317:Spanish
291:in the
177:Austria
159:Vanuatu
113:Pacific
90:Galicia
54:Spanish
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