some shoals in front at a distance of three leagues from the mouth, and afterward you will find two sandy islets, and then the open channel, and you can doubtless sail at will therein.  Passing this strait we found another small bay, and then another strait like unto the first.  From one entrance to the other the direction is east and west, and the strait runs from the northeast to the southwest.  After we had passed through the two mouths or straits we found a very large bay, and some islands.  In one of the latter we anchored and took the altitude, which we found to be fifty-two and one-third degrees.  From this point we sailed southeast and found a point to the left, at a distance from the first entrance of about thirty leagues....  There are many turns in this strait, and the mountains are very high and covered with snow.  Afterward we sailed northeast by east, passing many islands on the way.  At the farther end of the strait the coast turns northward.  At the left we saw a cape and an island, and we named them Cape Fermoso and Cape Deseado.  It lies in the same altitude as Cape Las Virgines, which is the first point at the entrance.  From the said Cape Fermoso we sailed northeast, north, and north-northwest, for two days and three nights, and on the next day we saw land ... and this land we saw the first day of December.”  On the twenty-fourth of January, 1521, they find an islet, which they name San Pablo.  On the sixth of March two small islands are sighted, and they see many small sails.  A further note of this same day says “The islands of the Ladrones are three hundred leagues from Gilolo.”  March 16, they sight more islands, giving names to two, Suluan and Yunagan—­the first island of the archipelago of San Lazaro [the Philippines].  They land successively at the islands of Gada, Seilani, and Mazava, and pass by or anchor at Matan, Subu, Baibai.  “We left Subu sailing southeast ... between the Cape of Subu and an island named Bohol; and on the western side of the Cape of Subu is another island, by name, Panilongo, inhabited by blacks.  This island and Subu have gold and quantities of ginger....  We anchored at the island of Bohol.”  Thus the log continues without date for some time, the islands of Quipit, Quagayan, Poluan, and Borney being noted.  At the latter place in a brush with the natives, they seize a junk, on which “was a son of the king of Luzon, which is a very large island.”  The ship passes on through the Moluccas, which are named:  “Terrenate, Tidori, Mare, Motil, Maquiam, Bachian, Gilolo—­these are all that have cloves.”  On the fourth of May, 1522, the Cape of Good Hope is founded. (No. xxii, pp. 209-247.)

The cargo of cloves brought by the “Victoria” amounted to three hundred and eighty-one sacks, with a net weight of five hundred and twenty-four quintals, twenty-one and one-half libras.  This was delivered to Cristobal de Haro, through an agent, in accordance with a royal decree of October 10, 1522.  The cargo also contained other spices, and a feather ornament, besides the private stores. (No. xxiii, pp. 247, 248.)