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ary. The latter soon proved unable to carry sail enough to keep pace with the larger 

 vessel; and as the voyage threatened to be prolonged thereby, the pilot of the patache was 

 hailed from the galleon, on 7 March, and asked if he believed he would be able to make the 

 voyage alone. The pilot having answered in the affirmative, the two vessels parted 

 company, and did not meet again. "From fear of English privateers" the Captain of the 

 galleon resolved to put in at Saypan instead Guam, which was the usual port. On 9 April, 

 when they were approaching the first-named island, they were met by a great flotilla 

 of canoes, which requested by signs that the ship should shorten sail; b ut for fear of 

 treachery and in order to take full advantage of the f avourable wind, they kept on their 

 course. When they had got to leeward of the island they met another canoe on which there 

 was a white man, whorn they first thought to be an Englishman in disguise, but who soon 

 turned out to be a sailor from the galleon "Santa Margarita", which had been wrecked 

 there a month before. By offering the natives two barrel-hoops of iron they succeeded in 

 getting him on board, and four other Spaniards were taken up from other boats; but they 

 had to give up the plan of landing with the object of saving the others, because they feared 

 losing the pinnace and because the wind prevented them from nearing the island. A 

 week låter they found themselves near Cape Espiritu Santo, but, as the entrance of the 

 Embocadero was hidden by a fog, they went to the north. On 30 April they were outside 

 a harbour on the coast of Luzon, where they felt compelled to take shelter from the storm 

 although it was unknown to them. This attempt went well at first, thanks to the help 

 of the saints, especially Saint Ignatius, to whorn the Jesuits on board directed their prayers; 

 but when they were beginning to believe themselves saved, a hurricane broke out which 

 shattered the ship to pieces. In a detailed account of the shipwreck it is ascribed to 

 superhuman powers that not one of the crew of five hundred löst his life, and that the 

 greater part of the cargo was saved. (Morga, p. 189. Colin. II, pp. 314 — 321. Bl. & 

 Rob. XII, p. 50; XIII, p. 119; XXVII, p. 191.) 



The patache, after separating from the galleon, reached the Philippines, but is 

 said afterwards to have been löst "in the shipyard of Pafiamao near Leyte". (Bl. & 

 Rob. XL VII, p. 35.) 



To New Spain there were dispatched in 1601 the "Nuestra Senora del Rosario" 

 and the "Jesus Maria Joseph": both seem to have put back, the former to Cebu. (Colin. 

 II, p. 239.) 



1602. In May there arrive at Manila from Acapulco two ships, one of which was 

 called the "Santa Potencia", having on board a new Governor, Don Pedro de Actjna. 

 The Governor had heard at Acapulco of the wreck of the "Santa Margarita" and therefore 

 called at Saypan, where he purchased the release of twenty-one out of the Spaniards left 

 there; another six, who had been conveyed to Guam, were rescued by the captain of the 

 almiranta; but there still remained some who were in the interiör of that island and there- 

 fore could not be reached. While the capitana was lying at Saypan for these purposes 

 and to take on board food and water, Father Juan Pobre and another friar suddenly 

 cast themselves into one of the native boats and went ashore without anybody being 

 able to hinder them. In the convoy of the Governor there were also two ships from Peru, 



