We have come to seek your hospitality, and protection." "We heard of an English vessel at Ternate," the governor said, sternly, "some weeks since; and heard also that its captain was making an alliance with the king there, against us." "It was not so," Ned said.

"The admiral stopped there for a few days to obtain supplies such as he needed; but we are not here either to make alliances or to trade.

Captain Drake, on starting, intended to voyage round the coast of America; and to return, if possible, by the north.

After coasting up the western shores of that continent, he found that it would be impossible to pass round the north, as the coast extended so rapidly toward the north of Asia.

He therefore started to return by the Cape, and on his way passed through these islands.
"Had it been part of his plan to make alliances with the King of Ternate, or any other potentate, he would have stopped and done so; and would have given his armed assistance to the king.