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mast and throw a great deal of the cargo overboard and return to Manila af ter four months. 

 The latter vessel, which had a very valuable cargo and many passengers, was swallowed 

 up by the sea, without any person on board being sa ved. Some days after the return of 

 the first-named vessel, a quantity of goods were found on the north-east coast of Luzon, 

 which were supposed to have formed part of the cargo of the "San Antonio". (Morga, 

 p. 242. Colin. I, p. 206; II, p. 446. Bl. & Rob. XIII, p. 313; XIV, p. 63; XVI, p. 45; 

 XVIII, p. 322; XXVII, p. 193.) 



1605. On 22 March two ships sailed from Acapulco under the command of Juan 

 de Esquivel, with 800 soldiers and a great quantity of military stores. They arrive at 

 Manila on 17 June. (Montero. I, p. 150. Bl. & Rob. XIV, pp. 54, 64. Colin. III, 

 pp. 5, 12.) 



The "Espiritu Santo", in charge of Fernando de los Rios Coronel, sails from 

 Manila at the beginning of July 1605. On 23 September they were in 39° lat.; and on 5 

 November they saw the mainland of America in 36°, and shortly afterwards some islands 

 off the Santa Barbara Channel. During the rest of the voyage along the coast of Cali- 

 fornia, they passed Isla de Oeniza (30°), and some rocks which were like ships under sail 

 (Alijos Rocks, 25°). They reach Acapulco on 9 December. (Viage que hizo el Licenciado 

 de los Rios desde Manila a la costa de Nueva Espaha; MS. in Bibi. Nac. at Madrid, com- 

 municated by Dr. Bruno Rolf.) 



1606. Fray Juan de San Geronimo with twelve Augustinians sails from Acapulco 

 on board the "Espiritu Santo"; they leave on 22 February, and reach the Philippines on 

 10 May. Quite a number of miracles are mentioned in connection with the voyage: for 

 instance, a fire was successfully extinguished; and one night they were on the point of 

 striking on a reef, and their escape from this is ascribed to the direct intervention of Pro- 

 vidence owing to the prayers of the friars. Förty of the crew die of fever in the course 

 of the voyage. (Bl. & Rob. XXI, pp. 122, 266.) 



In June or July two ships sail from Manila. The capitana, under Rodrigo de Men- 

 doza, made a rapid voyage to New Spain. The almiranta was more than six months on 

 the way; it had to commit to the deep 80 men who died of illness; and others expired after 

 their arrival at Acapulco. (Morga, p. 259. Colin. I, p. 206.) 



From the narratives of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros's celebrated expedition, 

 which sailed from Callao on 21 December 1605 to explore the unknown South Land 

 {Terra australis incognita), we need here only extract the facts that, after failing 

 in his principal object, he crossed the Line on his northward way on 3 July 1606 in about 

 163° E. Gr. On 24 July he had reached 15° N. lat., and when he had to choose between 

 steering westwards to the Philippines or eastwards to Mexico, he decided in favour of 

 the latter alternative. The course was laid towards the north in the main until, on 19 

 August, they were in 38° lat., where they steered due east. No land was seen until, on 

 23 September, they struck the coast of America in 34° lat. On 23 November 1606 the 

 voyage ended at Acapulco. (The Voyages oj Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, ed. by Sir 

 Clements Markham. Lond. Hakluyt Soc. 1904.) 



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