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Show Fates Proved Unkind to Spanish Explorer Cnpt Pedro I Qulro long had .been Intrigued by tslea of a vast continent con-tinent in the southwest Pacific ocean 'and flnully coaxed I'lillllp III, n( Spain, to let hhu go In seureh of IL On July 27. 1005. at rallitn, I'eru. .be 1rcw a nourish under till signature, commissioning the ciptiiln of lilt two ali I j, and was ready to mil on "the discovery of the unknown Mustml re-" re-" flong of Hits South sua by the order of the king." One of the captains presented him elf. reectfully asking IV Uulroa to lay down a course for them to follow "Lei her go m alie la," returned )e Qulma grimly. "Hod will take ua some wborer In the following yenr they sighted one of the Uliinda of the New lie brides group and De (Jnlroa, under 'the Impression thnt It wua his long ougw in no. numea it Ul Australia de Esplrltu Santa Followed sick-,ness sick-,ness and discontent, the crew mu tlnled and forced a return to Mexico 1 But not before He Qulros had cauuht . ; gllniime of a long, mysterious cosst line, that to this day aome believe . was the Australia of his dreams An ' , other expedition was organized b Mia In Spain but on reaching Canaan Cana-an be died of a fever and there he . lies, burled la an unknown grave. ; Detroit News. |