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(according to another statement, Juan de Zalaeta) makes a successful voyage from 

 Manila to Acapulco. (Ibid.) 



1666. The last-named vessel sails from Acapulco. The ship was unable to make 

 the Embocadero because the vendavals, which had set in, prevented it. Therefore it 

 anchored in the port of Palapa on the coast of Samar, on 10 August, after four months 

 and more of continuous sailing. Bad weather was so obstinate that it was unable to sail 

 to Manila until March in the following year. (Bl. & Rob. XXXVII, p. 130.) 



1667. Governor Diego de Salcedo de termined to build the galleon "Nuestra Senora 

 del Buen Socorro" in the province of Albay. In little more than one year the largest and 

 best galleon that had yet been seen in the islands was built — - "and very few so large 

 ha ve been seen in European seas, and extremely few that are larger". When the galleon 

 was finished, it sailed from Albay on 28 August 1667, under command of Diego de 

 Arévalo, with Juan Rodriguez, a Portuguese. as its chief pilot. The patache "San 

 Diego" left the port of Ca vite, on 7 August, under command of Admiral Bartolomé 

 MuSroz, to go in its convoy. The former went aground as it was leaving the harbour; 

 but it was got off easily by the great energy and skill of the commander. The "San Diego" 

 conveyed Father Sanvitores, who reached Acapulco in January 1668. (Bl. & Rob. 

 XXXVII, pp. 250, 255. Montbro. I, p. 340.) 



1668. In the middle of July the galleon "Nuestra Senora del Buen Socorro", in 

 charge of Don Diego de Arévalo, sighted the first land of the Philippines, namely Cape 

 Espiritu Santo; after weathering many storms, it made the harbour of Lampon on 20 

 July. The patache "San Diego" sailed from Acapulco on 23 March, and on 15 June arrived 

 at Guam, where Father Sanvitores and his fellow-workers were landed in order to begin 

 their work of conversion. Afterwards the ship comes to the Embocadero, where it is 

 detained by contrary winds, and finally to Cavite. (Bl. & Rob. XXXVII, pp. 141, 255, 

 256, 258.)' 



The galleon "San José" sails from the Philippines on 4 July, and reaches Acapulco 

 on 22 January 1669, after a voyage replete with storm and sickness. (Bl. & Rob. XLI, 

 p. 210.) 



1669. The galleon "San José", which returned from Acapulco in the month of 

 July, brought the new Governor, Maestre de campo, Don Manuel de Leon y Sara via, 

 "a valiant soldier from his youth in the countries of Flandes, Galicia, and other parts. 

 He had begun the rudiments of the military arts in the celebrated battle of Lutzen, in 

 which died that thunderbolt of the North, Gustavo Adolf o, king of Suecia, in the year 

 1632, who caused so great destruetion in Alemania by his captains Gustavo Horn, 

 Bernardo de Veymar, Bautis Gratz [Baudissin?], and other heretics until the battle of 

 Norlingen, fought by the Cardinal Inf an te in the year 1634, in which battle also Don 

 Manuel de Leon participated." (Bl. & Rob. XXXVII, p. 275.) 



The "Nuestra Senora del Buen Socorro", commander Diego de Arévalo, and the 

 "San Diego", commander Francisco Vizcarra, sail from the Philippines; but neither of 



