160 Mexico: Archivo General 
20. Discussion as to whether the Dominicans are to occupy the missions 
of the rivers “ Yaqui, Mayo, Sinaloa, and Fuerte”. 1773. 8 ff. 
(Correspondence of Pedro de Nava.) 
21-22. Quicker mail service to California, and more supplies for the 
department of marine of San Blas. Correspondence of José Joa- 
quin de Arrillaga, Fages, Ugarte y Loyola, Hixosa, and the vice- 
roy. 1786-1788. 35 ff. plus. 
23. Affairs of the marine of San Blas. 1789-1790. 42 ff. 
Vol. 47. 
1. “ Navigation made by the midshipman (alférez de navio) of the 
Royal Armada and commandant of the [frigate] of the King 
named the Princesa, D. Francisco Antonio Mourelle, from the 
Port of Manila in the Philippine Islands, . . . . to the Port of 
San Blas, commissioned for the new route of the equinox with 
despatches (pliegos) of the King Our Lord by the Most Excellent 
Sefior Viceroy in the years of 1780 and 1781.” 
Diary by Mourelle, ending at San Blas, Sept. 27, 1781. With a 
vocabulary of the Indians of the islands of Mayorga. 60 ff. 
Diary by first pilot of the Princesa, José Antonio Vasquez. Begins 
at Cavite, Aug. 24,1780. 280 ff. 
‘Maps of the Thousand Islands, “El Placer and Islands named 
Ohonagava, peopled with negroes from Guinea or Bretafia”, Yslas 
de Mayorga, Yslas de Galvez. 
Phelipe Asian, governor of Yslas Marianas, to the viceroy, report- 
ing the arrival there of the Princesa in bad condition. June 17, 
1781. 
Mourelle to the viceroy, reporting English relations at Manila; state 
of the defenses there. San Blas, Sept. 30, 1781. 
2. Inventory of a legajo entitled “ Various voyages made to the Presi- 
dios of la Alta California from the Port of San Blas”. The docu- 
‘ments are scattered through various volumes of the archive. The 
voyages listed fall between 1772 and 1786. 1 f. 
3. Minutes of communications to the commandant-general of the In- 
terior Provinces, the governor of Californias, the commandant of 
marine of San Blas, and the commissary of San Blas, concerning 
aid in way of troops and supplies for Californias and Sonora. 
With letters by Nava and Borica. 1795. 15 ff. 
4. Orders that the vessels of San Blas shall aid in the transportation of 
timber to California. Reports by Borica on the timber needed. 
1795. 4 ff. 
5. Report by the commandant-general, Pedro de Nava, on the merits of 
various military officials, and recommendation of promotions. 
1792. 6 ff. 
6. Account of cost of the esplanade, guard-house (guardia), and case- 
mate, constructed for the defense of Monterrey. 1796. 11 ff. 
(Correspondence of Governor Borica and the viceroy.) 
7, Provisions made in junta particular for the defense of Californias. 
Jiby er 17o5 at th 
(Communications of Salvador Fidalgo and Miguel Costanso.) 
8. Plan of the port of San Francisco and of the Fort of San Joaquin, 
made in 1794 by the ad interim governor, José Joaquin de Arri- 
