KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 57. NIO 4. 117 



Volcan Grande 24° 55' N. lat. 20° 30' long. 



Isla de Patos 25° 18' N. lat. 20° long. 



Desconocida 26° N. lat. 20° 5' long. 



The senas were seen on 12 December, and on the 28th of the same month they 

 passed Cape San Lucas. They arrived at Acapulco on 19 January 1730, and started back 

 on 31 March. On 20 Jime they saw the island of Sarpana (Rota in the Mariannes); and 

 on the 2oth, when they were presumably off Guam, it was resolved, in a Junta summoned 

 by the General, that all people who had embarked from the island and also some convicts 1 

 should leave the ship, because the water-supply was running short and the stormy weather 

 prevented the galleon from riding at anchor. On 19 September they sought port at Baco 

 (on the north coast of Mindoro), and remained lying there until 27 October, af ter which, 

 on 10 November, the galleon was wrecked, "inside the Embocadero". 



1730. The galleon "Nuestra Sefiora de Guia", General Don Francisco Antonio 

 de Abarca y Valdes, Piloto Mayor Don Henrique Herman. The galleon was ready 

 for sea on 16July, but storms prevented the departure from Cavite till the 31st of the 

 same month, and the passing of the Embocadero until 3 September. The senas were 

 first seen on 12 January 1731, in 34° 16' N. lat. and 102° long., from which it was concluded 

 that there was an error of six degrees in the reckoning, because, according to "los 

 practicos", the senas ought to be encountered in 96° long. 



When they were off the coast of California, in 23° 34' N. lat., the ship' scarpenter 

 announced that the rudder was so badly damaged that it could hardly be used. 

 On this account, on 26 January, the General summoned the officers to a Junta. 

 Their unanimous opinion — which was noted down by the ship's clerk with the 

 elaborate formalities that were customary on such occasions and which our manuscript 

 reproduces in full, — was that with the damaged rudder it was not safe to cross the 

 mouth of the Gulf of California, where rough weather often occurs, that the rudder 

 must necessarily be raised on to the deck for repairing, and that they must therefore 

 seek a port on the nearest land. The diary does not state if this resolution was carried 

 out: it merely mentions that on 30 January they were at a distance of 5 or 6 leagues from 

 Cape San Lucas; that on 4 February, in passing Navidad, they dispatched the galleon' s 

 mails; that on 14 February a boat was sent ashore with some sick persons; that the same 

 operation was repeated on 17 February off Acapulco; and that finally they put into 

 that harbour on 20 February. — The galleon started back again on 5 April; anchored 

 off Umata (Guam) on 11 July; passed the Embocadero on 24 August; and arrived at 

 Cavite on 19 September. 



1731. In this year, on 18 July, two vessels sailed from Cavite: the patache capitana 

 "Nuestra Sehora de Cobadonga", General Don Antonio Goncalez de Quijano, Piloto 

 Mayor Don Geronimo Montero; and the patache almiranta "San Cristobal", Almirante 

 Don Juan Manuel de la Vareda, Piloto Mayor Don Joseph Goncalez Bueno. On 



1 The Spanish troops in the Philippines were largely recruited from persons who had been condemned 

 for crimes committed in Mexico. 



