Thanks Mackaydon! I appreciate the correct info. I hate to post something that is false and was trying to go by memory when i last read some of his books. So am i correct that it is a preserve or sanctuary in that area? Sounds like its pretty much shut down for further investigation of that spot now huh?
Mike
Expedition not affected, did it wreck or beach, it's all in the translation?
Letter 1605,
The King: To Don Pedro de Acuña, knight of
the Order of St. John, my governor and captain
general of the Filipinas Islands, and president of my
royal Audiencia therein: You have already heard
that Don Luis de Velasco, former viceroy of Nueva
España - in view of the long navigation from the
port of Acapulco to those islands, and the great hard
ship and danger of navigation in that voyage because
of having no station wherein to repair the ships, and
to supply them with water, wood, masts, and other
requisite and necessary things – determined to ex-
plore and mark out the ports of the coasts from the
said Nueva España to those islands. He ordered
that this effort should be made by a vessel called
“The San Augustan” the said vessel was lost but the expedition was not affected.
This is a 19th century account, mentions the San Agustin, part of the reference is translated from a 1595 Spanish account of events.
"The fourth voyage of Californian annals was like
the third one from the far west. The piloto Sebastian
Rodriguez de Cermeňon in charge of the San Agustin
coming from the Philippines in 1595 , was ordered by
Governor Gomez Perez das Mariñas, in accordance
with royal instructions through Viceroy Velasco, to
make some explorations on the coast, doubtless with
a view to find a suitable station for the Manila ships.
Of Cermeñon's adventures we know only that his
vessel ran aground on a lee shore behind what was
later called Point Reyes, leaving on the land a large
quantity of wax and silk in boxes. It is possible that
the San Agustin was accompanied by another vessel
on which the officers and men escaped; but much more
probable I think that the expression ‘was lost in the
record is an error, and that the ship escaped with a
loss of her cargo. One of the men, Francisco Bolaños,
was piloto mayor, or sailing -master, under Vizcaino in
1603, when he anchored in the same port to see if
any trace of the cargo remained, but without landing.
The statement of Bolaños as reported incidentally in
the narrative of Vizcaino's voyage by Ascension and
Torquemada is, so far as I can learn, the only record
extant of this voyage”.
