108 DAHLGREN, THE DISCOVERY OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 



1700. The galleon "Nuestra Senora del Rosario", General Don Domingo Ruis 

 de Tagle, Piloto Mayor Fermin de Salavarria, sailed from Cavite on 26 June and 

 emerged from the Embocadero on 24 July. On 12 August Farallon de Pajaros was doubled 

 in 21° lat. and 21° long; and on 2 September, in 30° 19' lat. and 29° 16' long., a lookout 

 was posted to watch for Las Colunas, rocks which in tliis position could naturally not be 

 found. The senas were seen on 24 October, in 36° 31' lat. and 96° 29' long. ' When this 

 observation was taken, the pilot considered that they were not more than 30 leagues from 

 land, and declared that the reason that the senas had been met with so near land was 

 that they had reached this position bef ore the north and north-east wind had been able to 

 drive the sea-weed f urther out to sea. On 26 October the course was set for Isla Engahosa, 

 "The deceitful island", a name by which Guadalupe was denoted, probably because it 

 was often missed, which seems to ha ve been the case on this occasion, as the land which 

 came in sight on 8 November, in 23° 38' N., cannot have been anything except Cape San 

 Lucas. On 5 December they cast anchor in Acapulco. — On 27 March 1701 they set sail 

 from there, and on 29 June they sighted Tierra de Boronga (the east coast of Samar); from 

 there the galleon seems to have been driven southwards, for on 6 July it was off Tierra 

 de Guiguan "near Estrecho de San Juanico" (probably Guiuan near the southern point 

 of Samar). The log-book closes with the information that on 12 July they cast anchor in 

 Palapa (Puerto de Palapag, on the south side of the Embocadero). 



1701. The galleon "San Francisco Xavier", General Don Bernardo de Endaia, 

 Piloto Mayor Miguel de Lorreaga, sailed from Cavite on 5 July and passed out of the 

 Embocadero on 2 August. On 18 September they were off Volcan de San Agustin (the 

 southernmost island in the Volcano Archipelago). On 28 October they reckoned they 

 were in 31° 53' lat. and 35° 41' long., and on 31 October in 31° 25' lat. and 39° 16' long.: 

 on the former day Rica de Oro was noted in the margin of the diary, and on the latter day 

 Rica de Platå — which, of course, does not mean that land was then sighted, but only 

 that they were in the neighbourhood where the charts placed these imaginary islands. 

 The senas were encountered on 16 December in 33° 31' lat. and 97° 36' long., and on 8 

 January 1702 they arrived at Acapulco. — The return-journey from there was begun 

 on 31 March; on 15 June they passed the Mariannes; on 2 July Boronga was sighted; 

 and on 9 July they put in at Palapa. Seventeen of the crew had died during the outward 

 voyage. 



1702. The galleon "Nuestra Senora del Rosario", General Don Francisco de 

 Arcocha, Piloto Mayor Don Antonio Fernandez de Röjas, sailed on 15 July from 

 Puerto de Bagatao (near the southern end of Luzon) and cleared the Embocadero on 24 

 July. On this voyage they made a careful survey of the Volcano Islands. On 11 Sep- 

 tember they observed the southernmost of these, San Agustin, in 24° 8' N. lat. (the modern 

 figure is 24° 14'); while sailing westward from this they descried on the following day 

 the island of Fortuna, the position of which was determined as 24° 55' N. lat., and which 

 is the same as that which Captains G ore and King called Sulphur Island and placed in 

 24° 48' N. lat. It is a still active volcano, and from the galleon smoke was seen rising from 



