It was about 30 leagues to the N.W.
of the bay; but there were no soundings and no port.
[* Vanua Lava, in the Banks group.] They diligently sought its shelter, but were obliged to give it up owing to the wind and current; and on the next day they found themselves at sea, out of sight of land.
Queiroz made an attempt to reach Santa Cruz where, in case of separation, the fleet was to rendezvous in Graciosa Bay.

He failed to reach that island and sailed for Acapulco, which he sighted on the 3rd of October, 1606, and thence overland he reached Mexico with a small escort on his way back to Spain, where he arrived destitute.
On his return to Spain, Queiroz reported to the king the discovery of the Australian continent.

Thus it came to pass, in after years, that Australia was represented as shown in the accompanying map, and not until the French navigator Bougainville, and after him our immortal Cook, re-discovered the New Hebrides, was the illusion concerning Queiroz's discovery of Australia thoroughly dispelled.
In a work published in Paris, in 1756, the same year, therefore, as the map by Vaugondy, given here, De Brosses, the author of a work on Australian Discovery, describing New Holland, the name then given to Australia, says:-- "On the eastern coast is the _Terre du St.Esprit_ (the Land of the Holy Ghost), discovered by Queiroz." SPANISH MAP OF THE BAY OF ST.

PHILIP AND ST.

JAMES IN ESPIRITU SANTO ISLAND (NEW HEBRIDES).
The map given here was drafted by Don Diego de Prado, the cartographer of Queiroz' fleet.