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and left Manila so late as 24 August, it reached New Spain in safety, after a voyage of 

 four mönths. {Brit Mus. Add. MS. 17625.) 



1635. The capitana "Nuestra Sehora de la Concepciön" and the almiranta "San 

 Luis" arrive at Manila from New Spain on 24 June. (Bl. & Rob. XXV, p. 158; XXXV, 

 p. 26.) 



As the city of Manila was so ruined and poor, it had no wealth with which to load 

 the ships which they were authorized to dispatch, and hence no ship sailed this year to 

 New Spain. (Bl. & Rob. XXVII, p. 197.) 



1636. No ship arrived in New Spain. (Bl. & Rob. XXXV, p. 42; XXXVI, p. 50. ) 



1637. No galleon could be dispatched from Manila: only a small ship of 100 tone- 

 ladas, "San Juan Bautista", was sent in order to inform the Viceroy of Mexico concerning 

 the unfortunate state of things on the Philippines. It reached Acapulco after having 

 löst its mast on the way. (Bl. & Rob. XXIX, pp. 83, 85. ) 



1638. The Governor of Manila dispatched to New Spain the galleon "Nuestra 

 Senora de la Concepciön" — "the richest one that has ever been seen on that route". 

 It was in command of Don Juan Francisco de Corcuera, the Governor' s nephew. 

 Unfortunately it was wrecked during a storm, at an island of the Ladrones (Saypan), and 

 the cargo was löst as well as the people, except some few who escaped by swimming. 

 Amongst those who perished on this occasion was the captain. Besides those who were 

 drowned, many were killed by lance-thrusts from the natives. Those who escaped went 

 from island to island to those of Uan (Guam) and Harpana (Rota), where they were well 

 treated. From Guam the natives dispatched six Spaniards and two Indians in two boats. 

 "It was God's will to allow them to reach Manila, although they arrived almost dead with 

 hunger, thirst and lack of sleep". (Bl. & Rob. XXV, p. 192; XXIX, p. 168; XXXV, p. 44. ) 



At the same time as this ship, in August 1638, the almiranta "San Ambrosio" had 

 sailed from Manila. Wreckage which drifted ashore in the Philippines in the following 

 year aroused apprehension that the "San Ambrosio" too had been löst; but it proved 

 låter that it had safely reached New Spain. (Bl. & Rob. XXIX, pp. 157, 166. Brit. 

 Mus. Add. MS. 17625.) 



1639. When the galleon "Nuestra Sehora de la Concepciön Cambojana" was 

 leaving Manila on 4 August, it encountered a storm and was nearly wrecked; but when 

 the storm was över, "the ship began its voyage". (Bl. & Rob. XXIX, p. 194.) 



On 7 August news reached Manila that the capitana "San Ambrosio" and the al- 

 miranta "Nuestra Senora de la Concepciön", on their way from New Spain, had put in at 

 Aparri in the province of Cagayan (on the north coast of Luzon). "On the very day in 

 which this news arrived at Manila — because they had made a port badly sheltered, and 

 had not been able to better it in so many days, at that unseasonable time — so furious 

 a tempest struck the same nioorings, that all their skill was of no avail to them, and the 

 tempest drove them upon some rocks, where both were miserably löst. Although it was 



