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From Cape Corrientes I steered SE by E. 130 leagues to Acapulco; and af ter I had sailed 20 leagues 

 in this direction I found myself in Porto de Navidad, and after another 8 leagues in Porto de Santiago, 

 and finally after 6 leagues in Praya de Colima. And the whole of this coast as far as the harbour is 

 inhabited by peaceful folk. 



From this one sees that Gali in the course of his voyage across the ocean between 

 the coasts of Japan and California, found no land, unless one attachés credence to the 

 very indistinct statement, probably due to some misunderstanding, that he really saw 

 the island which the pilot called Armenicao (I shall låter, p. 67 below, return to the 

 question of what this stånds for). None the less Gali has been alleged by a Spanish 

 author 1 to have discovered the Hawaiian Islands — an allegation, however, which 

 seems to have attracted no attention, and certainly deserves none. 



1584? In a letter of 20 June 1585 it is said that "great satisfaction was felt in this 

 country [the Philippines] that the ship "Mora" arrived so miraculously at port" [Aca- 

 pulco], and that the deaths among the crew were not due to defects in the equipment. 

 Probably the ship "San Martin" sailed at the same time from the Philippines. (Bl. & 

 Rob. VI, pp. 67, 73.) 



1585. Francisco Gali, with the ship "San Juan", sails, on 25 March, from Aca- 

 pulco and arrives at Manila in June. This expedition, fitted out by the Viceroy of Mexico, 

 was to follow up the fruitless explorations of the previous year for a route from the 

 Philippines to New Spain, and especially to investigate some islands which were supposed 

 to lie east of Japan. But Gali dies in Manila, and so too does the cosmographer Juan 

 Jaime, who was to accompany him in order to make scientific observations. The ship 

 "San Juan" was declared to be "of no use, as it was worm-eaten and old". (Bl. & Rob. 

 VI, pp. 69, 263, 307, 310; VII p. 66.) 



1586. The "San Martin" and the "San Juan" sail from Cavite on 28 June. The 

 former, after a troublesome voyage and after having löst many people through sickness, 

 arrived at Acapulco on 1 January 1587. The latter was löst, laden with goods from the 

 Philippines. (Bl. & Rob. VII, p. 66. Colin. I, pp. 348, 362, 363.) 



1587. The Oidor in Guatemala, Löpe de Palacios, petitioned the Viceroy of 

 Mexico for the privilege of carrying on navigation between Peru and China, in spite of 

 the prohibition against trading between the Spanish and Portuguese possessions, which 

 prohibition had been maintained even after Portugal had been united with the crown 

 of Spain. For this purpose he had purchased the galleon "San Martin"; on this he sailed 

 from Acapulco, without calling at the Philippines, direct to Chincheo (Chang-Chow) in 

 China. Here he took cargo on board to go to Macao, but he was wrecked near his 

 destination; the crew and the cargo were saved. Afterwards the captain sought in vain 

 to obtain help from Manila, for he feared that the Chinese would murder him in order 

 totakehis money. (Bl. & Rob. VI, p. 315; VII, pp. 73, 86, 215.) 



1 Ricardo Beltuån y Rözpide, Descubritniento de la Oceania por los Espa/loles, Madrid 1892, p. 24. 



