88 DAHLGREN, THE DISCOVERY OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 



1649. The same vessel, under the command of General Don Lopez Colindrico, 

 on the return-voyage from Acapulco, took port at Caraga on Mindanao; but afterwards, 

 on the way thence to Manila, it was overtaken by a storm af ter passing the Embocadero 

 and was wrecked on the Playa de Bula (Leyte) on 21 October. The silver on board, 

 106,982 pesos, was saved, but all the cargo was wrecked, while some of the people löst 

 their lives. (Bl. & Rob. XXXVI, p. 51; XXXVII, pp. 177, 180; XLVII, p. 68. Colin. 

 III, p. 540. Brit, Mus. Add. MS. 17625.) 



1650. The "Nuestra Senora de Guiä", on the way from Acapulco, encountered a 

 storm when the coast of the Philippines was already in sight; and it arrived off Cape 

 Engaho completely dismasted and with great damage to the cargo and some loss of human 

 life. (Bl. & Rob*. XXXVI, p. 51. Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 17625.) 



The "San Diego", which had sailed from Manila and passed the Ladrones on her 

 way to New Spain, encountered a storm, in 28° lat., which split the mainmast and washed 

 seventeen persons overboard. They were thus compelled to turn back, and in October 

 they reached Naga in the province of Camarines. (Bl. & Rob. XXXVII, p. 177. Brit 

 Mus. Add. MS. 17625.) 



1651. No ship arrives from Acapulco. (Bl. & Rob. XXXVI, p. 51.) --The "San 

 Diego", in the course of a fresh attempt to reach New Spain, puts back to port, badly 

 injured by the storms that it had suffered in northern latitudes in the month of October. 

 (Bl. & Rob. XXXVII, p. 177; XLVII, p. 69.) 



1652. No ship from Acapulco. (Bl. & Rob. XXXVI, p. 51; XLVII, p. 69.) 



1653. The ship "San Francisco Xavier", which had wintered at Acapulco, as it 

 had arrived late and very hardly used, left that port on 3 March; and having had a very 

 fortunate voyage, and having profited by the entire monsoon of the brisas, arrived at 

 so good a season that it entered the Embocadero on 26 June. This vessel brings with it a 

 new governor, Manrique de Lära, the newly appointed archbishop, Miguel de Pobi ete, 

 and a swarm of religious. "The Devil was very angry at the great war that he would to 

 have to wage because of the holy prelates and religious who came on that galleon. Accord- 

 ingly, what he could not do on the high sea he managed to do on the way from the Embo- 

 cadero to Manila. For the winds rebelled against the ship at the island of Mindoro, and 

 so frightful a tempest arose that the galleon was all but löst, and in danger of going to 

 pieces on some high reefs about that island. They cast anchor, and the archbishop conjured 

 the storm, which immediately calmed itself. The galleon suffered three similar storms 

 among the islands before they reached the bay of Manila and cast anchor at Cavite, on 

 23 July." (Bl. & Rob. XXXVII, pp. 101, 187, 190.) 



1654. The "San Diego", which had sailed from Acapulco under the command of 

 Pedro Villaroel de la Cuesta, was wrecked in the beginning of June at Balian (near 

 the harbour and bay of Manila), as it went aground on an unknown shoal; only the hull 



