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and with a fair measure of certainty date it in one or other of the years 1589 or 1590. 

 What was originally meant by Juan da Garna' s land, on the other hand, must be left 

 unsettled. To judge by Teixeira's map it seems to correspond most closely to one of the 

 Kurile Islands; but it is far from probable that the Portuguese captain got so far north 

 as that. Perhaps the land seen by him was nothing but a part of the Japanese coast, 

 which, owing to some mistake on the part of the cartographer, had came to be placed too 

 far towards the north-east. 1 



1591. The "Santiago" sails from Acapulco to the Philippines (Colin. II, p. 203). 

 The "San Felipe" and another ship sail from the Philippines to New Spain at the end of 

 June. (Bl. & Rob. VIII, pp. 236, 255.) 



1593. The "San Felipe" and the "San Francisco" sail from the Philippines, but they 

 put back in distress, the former to the island of Cebu, the latter to Cavite. As a result 

 of this, no ship reaches New Spain this year. (Morga, p. 40.) 



1594. The same vessels sail from the Philippines in June and arrive at NeAv Spain 

 in November. (Bl. & Rob. IX, p. 142.) 



1595. The "San Felipe" and the "Santiago" sail from Acapulco on 22 March and 

 reach Cavite on 11 June. With this expedition sails Antonio de Morga, who had been 

 appointed Lieutenant-General in Manila and who is known as the first historian of the 

 Philippines. (Morga, p. 42. Bl. & Rob. XXX, p. 284.) 



The "San Agustin", under the command of the pilot Sebastian Rodriguez de 

 Cermexon, sails from the Philippines in July. He had been commissioned by the Vice- 

 roy of Mexico, Don Luis de Velasco, to explore the west coast of America north of Cali- 

 fornia in order to see whether there was any harbour in which ships, after the long voyage 

 across the ocean, could be repaired and provided with water, wood, and other things. 

 For this purpose they sailed from the Philippines; but at their first landfall on the 

 American coast the "San Agustin" was wrecked, on 4 October 1595, in Puerto de San 

 Francisco, which is supposed to be the present Drake Bay in California. (Torquemada, 

 Monarquia Indiana, I, Madrid 1723, p. 717. Bl. & Rob. IX, p. 193; XIX p. 182.) 



1596. Two ships sailed from Acapulco on 6 March, but they soon löst sight of each 

 other. The capitana, which conveyed the newly-appointed Governor, Don Francisco 

 Tello, encountered rough weather and a contrary current in the neighbourhood of the 

 Philippines; it could not therefore make the Embocadero, but had to make port at Ibalon 

 on 3 June, and consequently did not reach Manila till 1 August. (Bl. & Rob. XII, 



1 I have given a fuller account of the history of Gama-land in my work De franska sjöfärdcrna, pp. 

 241 — 245, 250 et sequ. On the basis of the above-cited letter of 3 April 1589, which was incompletely repro- 

 duced by Bl. & Rob. (VII, p. 79), I have taken up the question in my work Les debuts de la Cartograplnc da, 

 Japon (Upsala 1911, pp. 54 — 56); the account there given I have now been able to supplement in accordance 

 with the original documents published in Colin, I. p. 581, and II, pp. 202 — 204. 



