FIRST PROVINCE OF THE GREAT OCEAN. 93 



sorrel in 171O : the winds and currents soon 

 carry the ship out of sight ; tlie missionaries are 

 abandoned ; and every further attempt to come to 

 their assistance is ineffectual. ». 



Aux Jesuites de France, J. B. du Balde, torn. vi. 

 Relation en Forme de Journal, tom. vi. p. 75. 

 Lettre du P. Cazier, tom. xvi. 



Fatlier Jean Antoine Cantova collected, at Gua- 

 hon, in 1722, from the islanders of Ulea and Lamu- 

 reck wrecked there, a circumstantial account of the 

 Carolinas, and gives a chart of these islands, which 

 deserves the greatest regard; his heart was in- 

 flamed with a desire to spread the Gospel there. 



Lettre du Pere J. A. Cantova, tom. xviii. p. 188. 

 with a chart. 



The historians of Manilla have carefully collected 

 these histories from the sources. 



Historia de la Provincia de Philipinas de la Com- 

 pania de Jesus, par el P. Pedro Murillo Velarde, 

 Manilla, 1749, tom. ii. Historia General de Piiili- 

 pinas par Fr. Juan de la Concepcion, tom. ix. c. 4. 

 p. 1.51., and tom. x. c. 9. p. 239. 



We have borrowed the following from the 

 latter. 



Cantova succeeds in being sent to the inhabit- 

 ants of the Carolinas. In 1731, he is brought to 

 Mogemug, with Father Victor Uvaldcc, from Gua- 

 hon, and a mission is founded on the island of 

 Falalep. Fatlier Victor makes a voyngc to the 

 Marianas; when he returns, in 1733, with new 



