136 DAHLGREN, THE DISCOVERY OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 



Af ter this the voyage to Cape San Lucas is briefly described; but this description 

 does not offer anything of interest, except that the navigatör is warned against three little 

 rocks (Farallones) in 25° lat., which resemble frigates under sail (Alijos Rocks), and 

 which are stated to have been discovered in 1699. ' In a special chapter there is given a 

 detailed description of the coast between Cape Mendocino and Acapulco, a description 

 which is of interest as regards the Spaniards' then knowledge of California, but which can 

 here be ignored as having no connection with our principal subject. 



As regards the rules for sailing from Acapulco to the Embocadero and Cavite, we 

 may confine ourselves to giving a brief summary. 



In 10° lat., and 92° long., the variation is 2 degrees E.; in 12° 30' lat., and 70° long., 

 it is 8 degrees; and in 40° long. it rises to 11 degrees. Af ter increasing the latitude in order 

 to avoid the island of San Bartolomé, one goes down to 13° 15', in which latitude one comes 

 across "the island that is called S. Ygnacio de Agaria" (Guam). After sighting this, one 

 goes south of it and continues W. and NW. until one finds oneself in the meridian of Los 

 Garbanzos, i. e. in 14° long., after which one finally makes the Embocadero. 



Far more important than these prescriptions — which merely show that during the 

 century and a half that had elapsed since the course of the galleons had been settled in the 

 main, it had not undergone any essential alteration, — • is the list of geographical place- 

 names that is given in Cabrera Bueno's work. We have here an almost complete list, 

 with latitudes and longitudes, of all the islands in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean 

 that were marked in the charts of that time, and in this we have a good ground for 

 estimating the internal relations of these charts. Among the islands whose position is here 

 fixed we find not only those that are mentioned in connection with the voyages of the 

 galleons, but also others whose names are known solely through the charts. As amongst 

 these latter islands there also appears the group of Los Monges, which have been identified 

 with Hawaii, this list is of special interest to us. 



Cabrera Bueno's list is here reproduced in extenso. A closer examination of its 

 contents will be given (in Chapter xi) in connection with an account of the charts which 

 it illustrates. 



Latitudes y Longitudes desde San Bernardino hasta Acapulco, en la Derrota que se haze 



desde las Islas Philipinas a dicho Puerto, formando el primer 



Meridiano en S. Bernardino. 



Latitud Longit. 



Norte 



Gs. Ms. Gs. Ms. 



San Bernardino 12 45 00 00 



Catanduanes 14 00 00 20 



Cabo del Espiritu Santo ... 12 40 01 15 



Baxo de San Xavier 16 08 0G 00 



Abroxos 22 00 00 30 



1 See above p. 102. 



