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broke over the ships, which, not having decks, if God should not succor them, they 

 could not escape, and not being able to lay by, of necessity they ran aft northeast 

 towards the land ; and now, holding themselves for lost, they commended tbemselves 

 to our Lady of Guadaloupe, and made their wills, and ran thus until three o'clock in 

 the afternoon with much fear and labor, for they saw that they were going to be lost, 

 and already saw many signs of the land which was near, as small birds, and logs very 

 fresh, which floated from some rivers, although from the dark and cloudy weather the 

 land did not appear. At this hour the Mother of God succored them with the grace 

 of her Son, and there came a very violent rain-storm from the north, which made them 

 run all that night and the following day until sunset to the south, with the foresails 

 lowered ; and because there was a high sea from the south it broke over them each 

 time by the prow, and passed over them as if over a rock, and the wind shifted to the 

 northwest and the north-northwest with great fury, so that it made them run until 

 Saturday, the 3d of March, to the soxitheast and to the east-southeast, with such a 

 high sea that it made them cry out without reserve that if God and His blessed Mother 

 did not miraculously save them they could not escape. Saturday at noon the wind 

 moderated and remained at the northwest, for which they gave many thanks to our 

 Lord. They suffered also in provisions, as they had only biscuit, and that damaged. 



It appeared to them that there was a very large river, of which they had much 

 indication, between 41 degrees and 43, for they saw many signs of it. [Probably the 

 drift from the Columbia was here noticed, although all the smaller rivers of this coast carry 

 doicn more or less drift-wood.] This day, in the evening, they recognized Cabo de Pinos 

 [Point Arena*], and on account of the high sea which prevailed they could do no less 

 than run along the coast on the return course in search of a port. They experienced 

 much cold. 



Monday, on the 5th day of the said month of March, 1543, at dawn, they found 

 themselves off the island of Juan Eodriguez [San Miguel], and they did not dare to 

 enter the port on account of the great storm which prevailed, which dashed the sea 

 on the entrance of the port in 15 fathoms ; the wind was north-northwest ; the en- 

 trance is narrow ; they ran into the harbor of the island of San Salvador [Santa Cruz] 

 on the southeast side; and the night before coming with a violent tempest, with only 

 two small foresails, the other ship disappeared, so that they suspected that the sea had 

 swallowed it up, and they could not discover it any more, even after daybreak ; they 

 believe they must have been in 44 degrees when the last storm took them and com- 

 pelled them to fall off to leeward. [The allowance of a degree and a half would place 

 the highest point reached in about 42 J degrees, or at about the southern border of Oregon, 

 and it is believed that this is not far out of the way.] 



Thursday, the 8th day of the said month, they departed from the island of San 

 Salvador, to stand in for the mainland in search of the other ship, and they proceeded 

 to Pueblo de las Canoas [Buenaventura] and did not obtain news of the other ship ; and 

 here they took four Indians. 



The Friday following, on the 9th of the said month, they departed from Pueblo 

 de las Canoas and proceeded to the island of San Salvador and found no signs of their 

 consort. 



Sunday, the 11th of the said month, they came near Puerto de San Miguel [Saint 

 Pedro Bay], neither did they find here their consort nor any news of her ; here they 



