a ship at anchor, and to which the name Espiritu Santo ["Holy Ghost”] was given.  By September 15, Cebu lay fifteen hundred and forty-five leagues toward the west.  On the eighteenth an island on their starboard side was named Deseada ["Desired"], and the log reads sixteen hundred and fifty leagues from the point of departure.  On Saturday, the twenty-second, land was sighted; and next day the point of Santa Catalina, in twenty-seven degrees and twelve minutes north latitude, received its name.  From that point they coasted in a southeasterly direction along the shores of southern California to its southern point in “twenty-three degrees less an eighth,” naming the headland here Cape Blanco, from its white appearance.  Near this place died the master of the vessel, “and we threw him into the sea at this point.”  On the twenty-seventh the chief pilot “Esteban Rodriguez [67] died between nine and ten in the morning.”  The small islands southeast of Lower California were passed and it was estimated that they were in the neighborhood of cape Corrientes.  On the thirtieth, cape Chamela was passed; and on the first of October, the “San Pedro” lay off Puerto de la Navidad; the chart showing a distance of eighteen hundred and ninety-two leagues from Cebu.  “At this time I went to the captain and said to him, that I would take the ship wherever he ordered, because we were off Puerto de la Navidad.  He ordered me to take it to the port of Acapulco, and I obeyed the order.  Although at that time there were but from ten to eighteen men able to work, for the rest were sick, and sixteen others of us had died, we reached this port of Acapulco on the eighth of this present month of October after all the crew had endured great hardships.” (Tomo ii, no. xxxiv, pp. 427-456.)

Following this relation is a document showing the estimates made by the two pilots and the boatswain, by command of the captain, of the distance between Cebu and Puerto de la Navidad.  The first estimate was made on July 9.  The map of the chief pilot was found to measure eighteen hundred and fifty leagues, but in his opinion the distance was about two thousand leagues.  Rodrigo de la Isla Espinosa [68] declared that an old map in his possession showed more than thirteen hundred and seventy leagues, [69] but he increased the amount to about two thousand and thirty leagues.  Francisco de Astigarribia’s map measured eighteen hundred and fifty leagues, but his estimation was about two thousand and ten leagues.  On September 18 the same three men estimated the distance from Cebu to the first land sighted—­“an island off the west coast of New Spain” and lying in about thirty-three degrees—­at seventeen hundred and forty leagues sixteen hundred and fifty leagues, and sixteen hundred and fifty leagues respectively; the highest point reached had been a fraction over thirty-nine degrees. (Tomo ii, no. xxv, pp. 457-460.)