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Excerpt from Maritime Discovery, Vol. 2 of 2: A History of Nautical Exploration From the Earliest Times Don Luis de Velasco, who had recently removed fi'0m Mexico to Peru in succession to the Marquis de Canete, sent Quiros to Spain with letters to the king approving the project, which, however, slumbered for a period of ten years. Meanwhile other voyages were undertaken and discoveries made. The government Of Mexico, or New Spain as it was called, having resumed the intsu tion of founding a settlement on the American coast to the north of California, for the convenience Of the navi gation from the Philippine Islands, in 1595, a ship named the San Augustin explored the coast and discovered the port Of San Francisco, where she was wrecked. In the following year, the Conde de Monterey, successor in the viceroyalty to Velasco, despatched from Acapulco three vessels, to continue the exploration Of the Gulf of Cali fornis, under the command Of Sebastian Vizcaino. The squadron reached the isles of Mazatlan, where fifty men deserted, and then proceeded to Santa Cruz, where a settlement was established on the site of the colony planted by the Marquis del Valle. About fifty leagues from this place fifty men, landed from the Almi ranta, were attacked by the natives, when nineteen Spaniards were killed or drowned by the upsetting of the boat. In consequence of the failure Of supplies, Vizcaino abandoned the settlement in October, and re turned to Mexico. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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