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cleared the Embocadero on 5 September. On 10 October they passed "la boca grande" 

 between Agrigan on the south and Volcan Grande on the north. On the following day 

 they saw Farallon de Pajaros, the position of which, 21° 12' N. lat., 19° 20' long., was 

 taken as the starting-point for a new log-reckoning. The senas, 23 January 1736, in 35° 

 12' N. lat., and 95° 14' long. On 11 February, when in sight of the coast of California, 

 the General commanded that the guns, which had been kept in the hold during the voyage, 

 should be hoisted on deck, so as to pnt the galleon in a condition for fighting; but this 

 measure, which was generally taken towards the close of the voyage, was now considered 

 by the pilots to be extremely hazardous: the vessel had suffered badly from the terrible 

 storms it had encountered; it was unsufficiently ballasted, and wonld not be able to bear 

 the increased rolling due to the weight of the artillery. These objections were approved 

 by a Junta, and the General had to revoke his orders. Cape San Lucas was passed on 14 

 February without any attempt to land, probably as a result of the sad experience of the 

 preceding voyage. On the 19th the mail was sent to Navidad, and on the 24th they arrived 

 at Acapulco. — From here the galleon sailed on 16 April 1736; passed Guam on 5 July, 

 and sighted Cape Espiritu Santo on the 19th of the same month; but it was 30 August 

 before they could cast anchor at the island of Cahagayan, and they were compelled to 

 winter at Puerto de Palapag, situated behind that island. It was not until 20 February 

 1737 that they passed the Embocadero, af ter which Cavite was reached on 4 March. 



1736. On 31 July there sailed from Cavite the patache capitana "Nuestra Sehora 

 de Cobadonga", General Don Juan Francisco de Yrisarri, and the patache almiranta 

 "Nuestra Sehora del Pilar", the name of whose captain is not given. The diary was kept 

 by the Piloto Mayor Don Joseph Sacharias Villareal, who on the outward voyage 

 served on the almiranta, and on the homeward voyage upon the capitana. Embocadero, 

 18 August. On 14 September, after observing 22° 3' N. lat., and 20° 33' long., a Solve 

 was sung in the honour of the Blessed Virgin to commemorate the doubling of the 

 Mariannes. On 4 October in the evening they spöke the capitana for the last time; and no 

 further information is given concerning her voyage. The position of the two ships at 

 that time agreed very closely: for the capitana, 29° 41' N. lat., 27° 30' long.; for the 

 almiranta, 29° 43' N. lat., 27° 5' long. The latter encountered the senas on 4 December 

 (36° 9' N. lat., 97° 8' long.); saw the island of Guadalupe on 16 December, and Cape San 

 Lucas, at a distance of 8 to 10 leagues, on 26 December; anchored at Acapulco on 17 

 January 1737. — The capitana sailed from there on 2 April, and on 24 June encountered 

 the almiranta at Umata (Guam); and on 11 July both vessels were in sight of the east 

 coast of Samar. The difficulties of entering the Embocadero must have been exceptionally 

 great: they sought harbour successively at Cahagayan, Viri, and Rio de Calomotan 

 (possibly Rio de Calumpan, which disembogues in Ensehada de Batangas on the south 

 coast of Luzon). The diary breaks off here, on 28 July 1737, and does not continue until 

 13 January in the following year, with the information that the two pataches were then 

 in la Boca Grande, the entrance to Manila Bay. At last, on 29 January 1738, they put 

 in at Cavite. 



