MaldoTiado, and many of the early geographical fictions. ., Fuentes said 

 that, half way through the north-east passage, into which he sailed he 

 met a ship from Boston !" 



2. "On the 25th of January, 1*774, Ensign Juan Perez, formerly 

 employed in the Manilla trade, sailed on the corvette Santiago, from San 

 Bias, touching at Monterfey, California, from which he sailed June 6th, 

 .on an exploring expedition to the north, accompanied by Pilot Estevan 

 Martinez, and Eev. Fathers Pena and CVespi, chaplains. The first land 

 seen, July IS, 1*774, was that of the Queen Charlotte Islands, in latitude 

 54°, to the north point of which Perez gave the name of Co. de S. Marga- 

 rita, and to the high mountains, Sierra de San Cristoval. Finding no 

 anchorage, they turned southward without landing, and on the 9th of 

 August anchored in Nootka Sound. The authorities for this voyage are 

 the narratives of Perez, observations of Martinez, and the journal of Friar 

 Pena, MSS. copies of which were obtained from the Imperial Archives 

 of Madrid, by the United States Government, in 1840. An account was 

 also published in 1802, in the introduction to the voj^ages of the ' Sutil 

 and Mexicana.' This was the first voyage made northwards by the 

 Spaniards after 1603." 



3. "Immediately after the return of Perez, Viceroy Bucarelli ordered 

 another expedition to examine the coast as far as latitude 65°. Captain 

 Bruno Heceta, in cliarge of the Santiago, with Perez as Ensign, and the 

 schooner Sonora, in charge of Juan de Ayala, with Maurelle as pilot, in 

 company with the schooner San Carlos, sailed from San Bias, March 15, 

 1775. The Captain of the San Carlos became insane before they were 

 out of sight of land, and Ayala was detached to take his place, and 

 stopped at Monterey, while Lieutenant Francesco de la Bodega y Quadra 

 took his place in charge of the Sonora. Most accounts are erroneous in 

 stating that Ayala accompanied the expedition northwards. (The 

 authorities for this voyage are the MSS. accounts prepared by order of 

 the Spanish Government immediately after the conclusion of the expe- 

 dition, of the official nari-ative of the whole, including the journal of 

 Bodega, and of Maurelle, part of the journal of Heceta, and a concise 

 narrative by Bodega. These are represented by duplicates obtained from 

 Madrid, and now in our State Department Library. A synopsis was 

 published in Galiano's prefjice to the voyage of the Sutil and Mexicana in 

 1802. Barrington's translation of part of the MSS. was made before the 

 official revision, and includes manj'^ errors.) The schooner was attacked by 

 the natives near Destruction Island, north of Cape Mendocino: and being 

 very unwilling to proceed, Heceta, in the Santiago, (with Perez) seized 



