102 DAHLGREN, THE DISCOVERY OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 



de Palapag on the island of Samar, from where the silver on board was sent to Manila. 

 (Gemelli Carreri. V, p. 265.) 



1697. Archbishop Camacho embarked at Acapulco for Manila on 30 March. The 

 lading of the ship was made in great haste, because there was in Acapulco a fearful 

 pestilence. Several died from this pest on the ship, within a few days. On 19 July, they 

 encountered a terrible storm, from which they escaped only through the intercession of 

 St. Francis Xavier, a Jesuit casting into the water an order of the saint in which he 

 promised that they should have no fear. 1 On 24 July, they anchored in the port of Palapag, 

 where they suffered from a baguio (hurricane). On 8 September, the archbishop made 

 his public entry into Manila. (Bl. & Rob. XLII, p. 25 note.) 



1698. The "Nuestra Seriora del Rosario" sails from Manila and arrives at Acapulco 

 on 11 January 1699. (Bl. & Rob. XLIV, p. 303.) As regards the ship "San Geronimo", 

 which appears to have made the same voyage, we have no other intelligence except that, 

 in 1699 off the coast of California in 25° N. lat., it observed three small rocks situated 

 near one another and resembling "frigates under sail" (Cabrera Bueno, Navegacion 

 especulativa y pratica, p. 295). Concerning these rocks, now called AU jos Rocks, see 

 below under 1716 and 1727. 



1 As a curiosity deserves to be meutioned a similar method of softening the elements related by the 

 French astronomer Le Gentil, who in 1766 travelled on a Spanish ship from Bourbon to Manila. He says: 

 "Plusieurs des religieux Augustins que nous transportions ä Manille, ttrent des priéres ä saint Jean Népomucéne 

 pour en obtenir du vent; quelques-uns méme les écrivoient sur des petits morceaux de papier, les adressaient 

 ä ce Saint et les jetoient ä la mer par les sabords." {Voyage dans les mcrs deVInde, II, Paris 1781, p. 768.) 







