[1355] Greenhow, Oregon and California, 89; Bancroft doubts Viscaino’s presence (North Mexican States, i. 148).
[1356] Torquemada gives the chief information on this voyage. Bancroft (North Mexican States, i. 151) cites other writers.
[1357] Our knowledge of this expedition comes largely from the account of a Carmelite priest, Antonio de la Ascension, who accompanied it, and whose report, presented in the Biblioteca Nacional at Madrid, is printed in Pacheco’s Coleccion de documentos, viii. 539. Torquemada used it, and so did Venegas in his Noticia de la California (Madrid, 1757; English edition, London, 1759; French edition, Paris, 1767; German, 1769). Cf. on Venegas, Carter-Brown, vol. iii. nos. 1,172, 1,239, 1,601, 1,710; field, Indian Bibliography, nos. 1,599, 1,600; Bancroft, North Mexican States, i. 281. An abridged narrative from Lorenzana is given in the Boletin of the Mexican Geographical Society, vol. v., 1857. Navarrete adds some other documents in his Coleccion, xv. Bancroft (North Mexican States, i. 154-155, and California, i. 98) enumerates other sources; as does J. C. Brevoort in the Magazine of American History, i. 124.
[1358] Bancroft does not believe that he went beyond the Oregon line (42°), and considers his Cape Blanco to be the modern St. George (History of California, i. 104; Northwest Coast, i. 84).
[1359] Bancroft, Mexico, iii. 3; California, ii. 97; North Mexican States, i. 153. A sketch of Viscaino’s map from Cape Mendocino south is given in this History, Vol. III. p. 75. The map was published, as reduced from the thirty-six original sheets by Navarrete, in the Atlas para el viage de las goletas Sutil y Méxicana al reconocimiento del Estrecho de Juan de Fuca (1802). Cf. Navarrete, xv.; Greenhow’s Northwest Coast (1840), p. 131; Burney’s South Sea Voyages (1806), vol. ii. (with the map); and Bancroft, North Mexican States, i. 156; California, i. 97, and Northwest Coast, i. 101, 146.
[1360] This is reproduced in Charton’s Voyageurs, iv. 184, 185.
[1361] There is a draught of it in the Kohl Collection. Cf. Catalogue of Manuscript Maps in the British Museum (1844), i. 33.
[1362] Bancroft (Northwest Coast, i. 101) refers to the suspicions of Father Ascension in 1603, of Oñate in 1604, and of Nicolas de Cardona in or about 1617, that California was an island; but there was on their part no cartographical expression of the idea.
[1363] In Purchas’s Pilgrims, iii. 853, in 1625. This map is sketched in Bancroft’s North Mexican States, i. 169.
[1364] This Spanish chart here referred to is not identified, though Delisle credits it—according to Bancroft (Northwest Coast, i. 103)—to Jannson’s Monde Maritime. If by this is meant Jannson’s Orbis Maritimus, it was not till 1657 that Jannson added this volume to his edition of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas. Carpenter’s Geography (Oxford, 1625) repeats Purchas’s story, and many have followed it since. In Heylin and Ogilby, the story goes that some people on the coast in 1620 were carried in by the current, and found themselves in the gulf. The Spanish chart may have been the source of the map in the Amsterdam Herrera of 1622.