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that had suffered shipwreck on coming from Mexico". (Bl. & Rob. IV, p. 91; XXIII, 

 p. 227. Colin. I, pp. 25, 160.) 



1576. It is stated that the ship "Santiago" is to leave the Philippines for New 

 Spain at the beginning of June, and that another ship, the "San Felipe", is to leave in 

 about a month. The latter would seem to have been löst. (Bl. & Rob. IV, pp. 91, 109.) 



1577. The ship "San Juan" is to sail for New Spain on 8 June. (Bl. & Rob. IV, 

 p. 109.) 



Fifteen Franciscans sailed from New Spain and, af t er a voyage estimated at 2100 

 leagues, reached the Philippines on 15 March. On the way the Ladrones were visited; 

 and some of the friars request to be allowed to stay there to convert the natives: it 

 was considered inexpedient, however, to leave them without protection among such a 

 multitude of barbarians. (Bl. & Rob. XXXIV, p. 317.) 



1578. The ship "San Juanillo", Captain Juan de Ribera, sailed from the 

 Philippines for Mexico, but it was löst at sea and never heard of again. (Morga, p. 23. 

 Bl. & Rob. XV, p. 54; XXVII, p. 187.) 



1579. The "Trinidad" sails from Manila for New Spain. (Bl. & Rob. XXXIV, 

 p. 313.) In the following year, on 5 March, the ship "Espiritu Santo" is said to be ready 

 to sail from Acapulco for the Philippines. (Zelia Nuttall, New Light on Drake, Lond. 

 Hakluyt Soc. 1914, p. 323.) 



1580. Don Gonzalo Ronquillo de Penalosa had made a contract with the 

 King of Spain to the effect that, in return for the governorship of the Philippines for life, 

 he should convey thither 600 persons from Spain at his own cost. He sailed in 1579, 

 but löst one of his ships at the verv outset, in leaving Barrameda de Sanlucar. He after- 

 wards called at Cartagena and Nombre de Dios, after which he crossed the Isthmus to 

 Panama. Many of his men deserted in these places and many died, so that only 340 

 survived when, on 24 February 1580, he was ready to sail from Panama. (Colin, I, p. 164. ) 

 In order to guide this expedition the Viceroy of Mexico had sent two experts for the 

 China route from Acapulco to Panama; but the ship on which they were being conveyed 

 was captured, on 20 March 1579, by Francis Drake off the island of Caiio near Nicoya. 

 Drake tried, but in vain, to prevail upon one of these experts, Alonso Sanchez 

 Colchero, to serve him as pilot for the China route. Afterwards, on 13 April, when Drake 

 arrived at Guatulco, his two ships were mistaken for Ronquillo' s by the inhabitants of 

 the place: that this was a mistake they learnt immediately, when Drake occupied and 

 plundered the tOAvn. (Zelia Nuttall, op. cit. pp. 81, 195, 307, 343.) 



1581. The Governor Ronquillo de Penlosa wished to find a new route, further 

 to the south, for the return-voyage of the galleons to New Spain. The expedition which 

 was fitted out for this purpose he entrusted to his nephew, Juan Ronquillo del Castillo; 

 but after three months, when he had reached the neighbourhood of New Guinea, a 



