 | Henry D. Barrows - California - 1893 - 494 pages
...for a year. I sailed from the port of Acapulco, as I advised Your Majesty at the time, on the 5th day of May, of said year; and in conformity with the order...with the rules of good cosmography, and the art of demarkation; for, as your Viceroy wrote to Your Majesty, I was accompanied by a cosmographer in whom... | |
 | Joseph Schafer - Alaska - 1904 - 544 pages
...earlier examinations of the California coast. " I explored very diligently," he writes to the king, " the whole coast, not leaving harbor, bay, island,...of good cosmography, and the art of demarcation." From his time, maps of California have a distinctly modern appearance, save that Aguilar's river often... | |
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... Monterey, I set out on the discovery of the coast of the South Sea with two ships, a lancha, and a barcoluengo, with the requisite sailors and soldiers, armed and provisioned with everything necessary for a year. I sailed from the port of Acapulco,... 