Wilcocks's 'historia exacta' (autobiographical voyage account, for Cordero/the Viceroy): bought the schooner in China, sailed Sep 1815 to Port Jackson [Sydney], then a Pacific port closed to foreign trade (castle fired on him as he fled by night; he returned 2 shots, did no harm); provisioned from whalers at the Galápagos; via Guaymas & the Sandwich Islands [Hawaii] (repaired & bought otters/*nutrias*); ⭐ left Hawaii 7 Oct & reached 'un establecimiento ruso llamado Bodega' on the 25th [Oct 1816] — but 'los rusos no quisieron comprar nada'; went to Santa Bárbara (Bodega gave nothing); ran the coast carrying maize/beans/tallow & timber to rebuild the Sta Bárbara presidio + Santa Cruz Island timber for a new church; at Monterey sold Gov. Solá $700 of *manta* for the four presidios' troops (SF/Monterey/SB/SD); ⭐⭐ moral self-defense — content the blame is his 'si es culpa de dar de comer a los hambrientos y a vestir a los desnudos soldados del Rey de España,' noting most soldiers couldn't go to Mass for want of clothing; cargo of sea-otter & sea-lion skins, pearls, 23 cases of silk; robbed of 4,000 pesos at sea + more at Guaymas; gave Cmdt. Narbona a parcel of pearls; asks a passport to Mexico, subsistence money, & to bring Don Guillermo Gual. = expanded Document 19
| Date | 1817 (year) |
|---|---|
| From | Guaymas |
| Series | Provincial State Papers |
| Tomo | XX |
| Original tomo page | i.716–726 |
| Savage copy page | 166–172 |
| Scan leaf | n165–n171 |
| Document type | verbatim |
| Source | verbatim transcription |
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