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its summit. In the evening of the same day was seen the third island, San Alessandro, 

 which was passed during the night with a very slight wind, almost a calm. On 15 September 

 they discovered another island, situated NNE. from San Alessandro in 27° 30' N. lat. 

 The pilot declared that it could not be the island of San Juan because it was situated 

 much to far to the east: it was therefore considered to be a new discovery and received 

 the name of Rosario af ter the galleon. This name was transferred in 1813 from the old 

 Spanish charts by the Spanish Captain Solis to an island discovered in 1801 by Captain 

 Bishop and by him called Disappointment: the position of this last, 27° 18' N. lat. and 

 140° 50' E. long., agrees very well, so far as the latitude is concerned, with the figure of 

 the first discoverer. The galleon crossed the meridian of the Mariannes on 24 September 

 in 30° 58' N. lat., and encountered the senas on 6 December. Only two days låter, on 8 

 December, land hove in sight, which was thought to be Punta de la Concepcion on the coast 

 of California; b ut in that case the latitude observed, 35° 24', is a whole degree too high. 

 The passing of Cape San Lucas is dated 26 December, and the arrival at Acapulco 12 

 January 1703. — When the galleon sailed from there, on 25 March, it was under the 

 command of General Don Joseph Ciriano. Cape Espiritu Santo came in sight on 28 

 June; and on 5 July the galleon was compelled to seek shelter at Bahia de Sorsogon, which 

 was almost the same place as that from which it had put out a year earlier. It was compel- 

 led to stay here until 4 October, and did not reach Cavite until the 24th of that month. — 

 Amongst those who died on the voyage is mentioned the ex-governor of the Philippines, 

 Don Fausto Cruzat y Gongora, who died on 24 November 1702. 



1703. The galleon "Nuestra Sehora del Rosario" (a different ship from that just 

 mentioned), General Don Teodoro de San Lucas, Piloto May or Diego Iserot. Af ter 

 leaving Cavite on 25 July, they cleared the Embocadero on 6 August. The diary kept on 

 this voyage, unlike all the rest, does not reckon the longitude from Cape Espiritu Santo. 

 As the mouth of the Embocadero is given as lying in 153° 20' long., it looks as if they 

 had reckoned, like Mercator, from the meridian of the Azores; but possibly the pilot, like 

 most of the European navigatörs of his time, regarded the meridian of Teneriffe as the 

 initial meridian, and in that case lie placed his starting-point about twelve degrees too 

 far to the east. On this voyage too was observed Volcan de San Aqustin (24° 30' N. lat.); 

 and when, on 7 October, in 32° 24' lat. and 192° 41' long., they observed a flock of sea-fowl 

 (pajaros pescadores), it is said that these certainly came from Rica de Platå, as on the 

 previous day they had been due south of that island — which is another proof of the 

 tenacity of the belief in this island, which had never been seen. On 9 December the senas 

 were observed in 34° 34' N. lat. and 256° 1' long., which gives the pilot occasion to remark 

 that he had sailed 7° 29' further than the galleon of the year 1695, before this observation 

 was made — which is a mention of a voyage of which we have no other information. 

 Af ter that they saw Cape San Lucas on 25 December, and arrived at Acapulco on 15 

 January 1704. — The return-journey was begun on 17 March; on 1 June they called at 

 Guam; on 22 June they passed the Embocadero, and on 7 July the galleon put into the 

 Bahia de Manila. 



