ABSTRACT
WERE my knowledge and discretion in giving your Majesty this brief account of the voyage of discovery which, as General, I made to the South Sea by order of the Licentiate Castro, Governor of Peru, equal to the faith and goodwill with which I offered my person to the hardships and dangers thereof, in the service of your Majesty, I might feel assured that my account would be pleasing to you; but, since in those who cannot render the service they desire, the will should be taken for the deed, I beseech your Majesty to accept mine, in consideration of the faithfulness with which I served your Majesty.
