AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1540. 



very good fortune, in that I found Don Luis de Castilia, 

 The port of 2i\\di Augustine Ghenero in the port of Colima : for the 

 Cohma. Galiot of the Adelantado came upon mee, which was 

 there with the rest of his fleet, and commanded me to 

 strike sayle, which seeming a strange thing unto me, 

 and not understanding in what state things were in 

 Nueva Espanna, I went about to defend my selfe, and 

 not to doe it. In the meane while came Don Luis de 

 Castilia in a boate and conferred with mee, and I lay 

 at anchor on the other side of the haven where the 

 saide fleete road, and I gave unto him this relation (and 

 to avoyd striffe I determined to sayle away by night) 

 which relation I caryed about me briefly written ; for I 

 alwayes had a purpose to send the same, as soone as 

 I should touch upon Nueva Espanna, to advertize your 

 Lordship of my proceedings. 



An extract of a Spanish letter written from Pueblo 

 de los Angeles in Nueva Espanna in October 

 1597, touching the discoverie of the rich Isles 

 of California, being distant eight dayes sayling 

 from the maine. 



E have scene a letter written the eight of October 

 1597, out of a towne called Pueblo de los 

 Angeles situate eighteene leagues from Mexico, 



making mention of the Hands of California situate two 

 or three hundreth leagues from the maine land of Nueva 

 Espanna, in Mar del Sur : as that thither have bene sent 

 before that time some people to conquer them : which 

 with losse of some twentie men were forced backe. 

 After that they had wel visited and found those Islands 

 or countreys to be very rich of gold and silver mynes, 

 and of very fayre Orientall pearles, which were caught 

 in good quantitie upon one fathome and an halfe pass- 

 ing in beautie the pearles of the Island Margarita: the 

 report thereof caused the Viceroy of Mexico to send 

 a citizen of Mexico with two hundreth men to conquer 



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