82 DAHLGREN, THE DISCOVERY OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 



the statement (Bl. & Rob. XX VII, p. 195) that two ships sailed, but put back, is 

 probably incorrect. 



1617. Several ships were sent from New Spain to the Philippines: two dispatch- 

 boats reached t hese islands in February and one in March. Another patache, "San Jero- 

 nimo", a small Pernvian ship, which was almost wrecked among the islands because the 

 vendavals had set in early and with violent force, arrived from Acapulco at Cavite on 

 26 Jnne. It is said further that the small almiranta from New Spain was wrecked off 

 Japan, while the capitana "was also destroyed, having been burned on this coast with 

 two other vessels, fragatas, which were with it". These statements seem difficult to 

 reconcile and are probably not correct in detail. (Bl. & Rob. XVIII, pp. 43, 53, 116; 

 XX, pp. 48, 95; XXIV, p. 91.) -- This year two ships were sent from the Philippines to 

 New Spain, under the command of Juan Pardo de Losada; and both of them put back. 

 (Bl. & Rob. XXVII, p. 196.) 



1618. Two ships sail from Acapulco on 2 April and arrive at Cavite on 5 July. — 

 From Manila depart two ships in the beginning of August: the capitana under the command 

 of General Don Antonio de Leoz, the almiranta under the command of Juan Baptista 

 de Molina: they reach Acapulco after four months. (Bl. & Rob. XVIII, pp. 116, 133, 

 136, 247.) 



1619. The two ships which had come to Acapulco in the preceding year sail thence 

 in April and arrive at Manila on 3 August; "they have been among the most fortunate 

 ships seen here". — In the beginning of August the galleon "San Nicolas" sails from the 

 Philippines to New Spain: 330 persons die in the voyage, "on account of its late departure". 

 (Bl. & Rob. XVIII, p. 247; XX, p. 128.) 



1620. Three ships, amongst them the capitana "San Nicolas", sail from Acapulco 

 under the command of Fernando de Ayala. One or more of these were compelled to 

 put in at Japan, because they had sailed so late that the season of the vendavals had 

 already set in. A Dutch fleet under Bartholomaeus van Spilbergen was cruising 

 about, waiting for them off Cape Espiritu Santo. When the opposed fleets met on 26 June, 

 the Spaniards succeeded in escaping under cover of darkness: the capitana was driven 

 ashore at Albay, north of the Embocadero, and was löst there, after they had managed to 

 land the silver and send it överland to Manila; a similar accident befel the almiranta in 

 Palapag roads (Samar). (Bl. & Rob. XX, p. 95. D. A. Sloos, De Nederlanders in de 

 Philippijnsche wateren, Amst. 1898, p. 50. Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 17625.) 



Two ships sail from the Philippines to New Spain: the capitana "San Andres" 

 under General Fernando Centeno Maldonado, the almiranta under Francisco de 

 Salazar. The latter, while sailing out of the Embocadero, encountered hurricanes so 

 furious that it seemed as if the sea would swallow it up. They tried to make port in Japan, 

 but it was impossible, and they finally arrived, on 30 November, at Manila, rounding Cape 

 del Bojeador. Three days before these tempests commenced, they sighted the capitana, 

 but never saw her again. Probably, however, the capitana succeeded in reaching Aca- 



