KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIEN3 HANDLINGAR. BAND 57. N:0 4. 49 



Magdalen and an Agnus Dei, and began their litany. The stars began to appear, and 

 soon the storm had passed. At last they all reached Manila safely. (Bl. & Rob. XXX, 

 p. 205.) 



1589. According to a letter of 15 July in this year, a ship from Panama or Peru 

 is said, without having called at Manilla, to have arrived at Macao, "prepared to lay out 

 a large sum of money". (Bl. & Rob. VII, p. 120.) 



On 29 June a violent storm råges in Manila. Two ships which were loading a cargo 

 for New Spain were driven ashore by the force of this tempest, and it is understood 

 that they cannot be repaired. In all the port not one ship or frigate escaped, except one 

 small boat, which was taken to send advices to New Spain. (Bl. & Rob. VII, p. 134. 

 Colin. I, p. 176.) 



1590. Two ships, the capitana "Santiago" and a smaller one as almiranta, sail 

 from Acapulco on 1 March, "with numerous infantry and large supplies of everything 

 necessary for the Philippines". The almiranta, on which Father Pedro Chibino and 

 several other Jesuits were travelling as passengers, encountered, in passing through the 

 Embocadero, a severe storm, which dismasted the ship and made her completely helpless 

 and drove her ashore on the island of Marinduque. The people and the cargo were saved, 

 and the Jesuits betook themselves in light vessels to Manila on 20 June. The capitana 

 with the newly appointed Governor, Gömez Pérez Dasmabinas, had arrived safely at 

 Cavite before that, on 31 May. As there was no ship ready to send to New Spain, the 

 Governor, one month after his arrival, dispatched the ship by which lie had come, the 

 galleon "Santiago", to Acapulco. It reached that harbour in December, and another 

 ship, the "San Ildefonso", arrived there on 19 January 1591, after a voyage which is 

 characterized as fortunate, although the crew had suffered a great deal from sickness 

 and lack of provisions. (Colin. I, pp. 177, 508.) 



In the same year, 1590, the Viceroy of Peru, Don Garcia de Mendoza, resolved to 

 send a great ship to Macao in order to provide that colony "with certain commodities 

 of which it was in need". The ship, which was under the command of a nephew of the 

 Viceroy, arrived after a successful voyage at Macao; but was there confiscated because of 

 the Royal Ordinances which forbade, under heavy penalties, all trade between Peru and 

 China or the Philippines. (Colin. II, p. 197.) 



The observance of the embargo between the Spanish and the Portuguese possessions 

 at this time involved the authorities on both sides in many difficulties. In a letter from 

 Goa on 3 April 1589, the Viceroy of India, Manuel de Sousa Coutiniio, complains that 

 the trade-prohibition was set at naught especially by those who ought to have enforced 

 it. Amongst the guilty persons are mentioned Jeronimo Pebeira, Captain on the Japan 

 trade, and "el capitan mayor", Don Juan da Gama. To prevent such a public scandal, 

 the Viceroy had resolved to send to Macao two officials with a ship and soldiers, and he 

 hoped hereby to put an end to the malpractices. This was not successful, however: 

 that Juan da Gama, in 1589 or 1590, sailed from Macao to New Spain on a ship of his own, 

 probably accompanied by another belonging to a certain Baltasab Rodbiguez, is shown 



K. Sv. Vet, Akad. Handl. Band 57. N:o i. 7 



