After ten days charting the bay, the expedition continued north. From there two of the three boats proceeded further north. The diary was published in Spanish in Carrasco and Francisco Guisasola, eds. This English translation is from Herbert Eugene Bolton, ed. Douros, Basil S. Hughart, Kathy and Bill White. Back to Profile. Photos Works. Main Photo. School period Add photo. Career Add photo. Achievements Add photo.
Membership Add photo. Awards Add photo. Other Photos Add photo. Connections Add photo. View map. Born On July 23, Drake sailed into the Pacific, never to return. During the same period of time, Spain explored and developed trade routes to the Philippines, and annual voyages between the new source of wealth in the Orient and the Pacific coast occupied the Crown's interests after , leaving exploration of California's coastal waters until a later date.
This brought most vessels to the lower end of Baja California, from where they sailed south to Acapulco. In , Francisco Gali , commanding one of the ships returning from Macao by way of Japan, ventured much farther to the northeast, reached the California coast, possibly at Cape Mendocino, and sailed southward along the coast to Mexico. It is likely that he was not the first of the Manila galleons to do so, and some may have gone ashore for water or other supplies.
It is known that one of the Manila route ships, captained by Pedro de Una muno , anchored in Morro Bay on October 18, , and penetrated inland to the site of San Luis Obispo. Attacks on the Manila galleons by English corsairs pointed up the weakness of Spain's defense of her western coast, instigating new efforts, beginning in , to chart the unguarded coast.
His vessel, the San Agustin, ran aground at Drake's Bay on November 30, and the crew spent some time exploring inland in the vicinity of Marin County while repairs were made. The cargo, wax and silk, had to be left in boxes on the shore. The repaired vessel, or in some accounts the ship's launch, called the Santa Buenaventura, briefly described the Monterey Bay on December 9, , and returned to the mainland in January, They reached Cape San Lucas on June 8, where they were forced to abandon the long boat.
The remaining three vessels battled up the outer coast of Lower California, frequently short on water and separated, until they finally reached San Diego on November a voyage of six months and five days! A favorable wind on December 13 carried them along the shore below the Santa Lucia Mountains, which they saw only when the fog lifted on the 14th. They went ashore the following day, and pitched the church tent under the shade of an oak whose branches touched the tidewater, 20 paces from springs of good water in a ravine.
Most of the sailers were suffering from scurvy; many were seriously ill, and 16 had died!
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