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a sufficient basis for the preliminary occupation of a port, whether
San Diego or Monterey.
The viceroy determined to push the project to execution as
early as possible, and accordingly planned to send out Vizcaino
again as a commander of the galleons for 1604, with the further
intention that the latter should examine the vicinity of the pro-
posed settlement even more minutely on his return from the
Philippines. He takes this occasion to. laud the work of Viz-
caino, whom he calls a skilled and trustworthy navigator. "He
will give," said Monterey, "very good account of anything he
undertakes at sea."32 However, even then Vizcaino's removal had
already been decreed, and Monterey, although acquiescing in the
royal resolution, inspired by some sinister influence or other,
strongly advised the reinstatement of the veteran discoverer.
Monterey himself had already been promoted to the other vice-
royalty, and was at Acapulco, awaiting a ship, to carry him south
to Peru.
The prospects for the continuation of the California plans
were not bright. Not only were those two men who were respon-
sible for their ultimate execution, and who moreover enthusiasti-
cally desired their consummation, now officially powerless to fur-
ther them, but the new viceroy, Mendoza y Luna, MVarqu6s de
Monteselaros, was avowedly hostile to the whole project, and no
friend to the galleon trade. He formally deprived Vizcaino of
his commission for the further exploration of the California
coast, and substituted for him one Diego de Mendoza.33 He con-
sidered Vizcaino sufficiently recompensed by his appointment as
alcalde mayor of Tehuantepec. The grandee was personally ag-
grieved at the Basque sailor, whom he charged with writing a
letter to some high personage to the effect that the easiest wvay
for Montesclaros to fulfill his duty to him (Vizcaino) and to
make himself rich was to appoint him commander of the Philip-
pine ships for the following year.
However, in 1606 the king-Philip III,-on the recommenda-
tion of the Council of the Indies and of the chief Cosmographer,
"Monterey to the King, Otumba, November 12, 1603, Archivo de Indias,
58-3-14. "Sabra dar muy buena quenta de qualquier negocio de la mar, y
a mi parecer la darn assimismo en cargas de justicia."
"Montesclaros to the King, October 28, 1605, Archivo de Indias, 58-3-15.116
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