96 DAHLGREN, THE DISCOVERY OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 



The "Santo Nino", commander Don Francisco Guerrero y Ardila, sails from 

 Manila to Acapulco. (Ibid. XLII, p. 225. ) 



1685. The "San Telmo", which had sailed from Acapulco on 4 April, anchored in 

 the port of Sorsogon on 14 July, and arrived in Manila some time in August. The "Santo 

 Nino", also, under the command of Antonio Nietc, arrives this year from Acapulco. 

 (Bi, & Rob. XLI, p. 204; XLII, p. 237.) 



The first vessel that the Governor Curuzealegui dispatched for Ne av Spain was the 

 galleon "Santa Rosa"; and he appointed as its commander Don Francisco Zorilla, 

 and as chief pilot Admiral Don Lorenzo Lazcano. The voyage of this galleon caused 

 great loss to the citizens of Manila, on account of the difficulty in disposing of their pro- 

 perty caused by the poor märket that they found at the port of Acapulco. (Bl. & Rob. 

 XLII, p. 235. ) It was this galleon that the English privateers Swan and Townley were 

 going to try to capture off Cape Corrientes in December 1686; but the attempt miscarried 

 because the ship passed while they were ashore taking in supplies. (Dampier' s Voyages, 

 ed. by John Masefield, I, Lond. 1906., p. 272.) 



1686. William Dampier, who was on board the "Cygnet", Captain Charles 

 Swan, arrived at Guam on 21 May. He says (Dampier'' s Voyages, I, p. 313): — 



While we lay here, the Acapulco ship arrived in sight of the island, but did not come in sight 

 of us; for the Governor sent an Indian proe with advice of our benig here. Therefore she stood off 

 to the southward of the island, and coming foul of the same shoal that our bark had run över before, 

 was in great danger of being löst there, for she struck off her rudder, and with much ado got clear; 

 but not till after three days labour. For tho' the shoal be so near the island, and the Indians go off 

 and fish there every day, yet the master of the Acapulco ship, who should (one would think) know 

 these parts, was utterly ignorant of it. This their striking on the shoal we heard afterward, when 

 we were on the coast of Manila; but these Indians of Guam did speak of her being in sight of the island 

 while we lay there, which put our men in a great heat to go out after her. but Captain Swan persuaded 

 them out of that humour, for he was now wholly averse to any hostile action. 



Bl. & Rob. (XXXVIII, p. 264), relying on a statement by Casimiro Dias (ibid. 

 XLII, p. 245), says that this galleon was the "San Telmo", but this is erroneous: it was 

 the "Santa Rosa" under the command of Lorenzo Lazcano. This is confirmed by the 

 name Basso de Santa Mosa for the shoal on which the galleon grounded — a name that 

 bas been retained on the maps of our own days. 



The Governor of Manila, who had received intelligence of the arrival of the English 

 privateers — he believed that these were seven vessels, whereas, in point of fact, there 

 was but one — dispatched the galleon "Santo Nino" to escort through the Embocadero 

 the ship expected from Acapulco. In this they were successful; and on 11 July the ringing 

 of bells in Manila announced the arrival of the "Santa Rosa". (Bl. & Rob. XXXIX, 

 p. 131.) 



Before this they had made a geographical discovery which is described in the 

 following words in a "Diary of events in the Philippines, 1686 — 88": "On 11 June 1686, 

 the galleon "Santo Nino" discovercd, twenty-two leagues from the island of San Juan. 



