The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 41
east-erly passage to the Atlantic, nor a mainland connection with Asia, whichthree quests were the precious fleeces for which Spanish Argonauts of thesixteenth century sailed the North Pacific, and no further expeditionswere sent to California for many years. In 1579, Sir Francis Drake came this… … quest of gold, not in mines but aboard rich Spanish galleons from Mexicoto the Orient. Afterward, in 1602-3, the second Spanish exploration ofthe Upper California coast was undertaken by General Don SebastianVizcaino, with a principal object of finding a safe harbor for vesselssailing from the…
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