Ocean's Story; or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries Maritime Adventures, Achievements, Explorations, Discoveries and Inventions; and of the Rise and Progress of Ship-Building and Ocean Navigation, from the Ark to the Iron Steamships

CHAPTER XXX.--Discovery of the Solomon Islands by Mendana--He seeks

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for them again Thirty Years later--Quiros--The Marquesas Islands--The Women compared with those of Lima--Strange Fruits--Conversions to Christianity--Arduous Voyage--Santa Cruz--Mendana exchanges Names with Malopé--Hostilities--War, and its Results--Death of Mendana--Quiros conducts the Ships to Manilla 291