Bartolomé Ferrer, also known as Bartolomé Ferrelo, was born in 1499 in the region of
Levante, Spain,
or in
Bilbao
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Biscay
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and died in 1550 in
Mexico
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.
He was the pilot for
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo ( pt, João Rodrigues Cabrilho; c. 1499 – January 3, 1543) was an Iberian maritime explorer best known for investigations of the West Coast of North America, undertaken on behalf of the Spanish Empire. He was the firs ...
, the Portuguese captain who was sent by the
viceroy of New Spain
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, with two ships in 1542 to explore what is now
Northern California
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. Cabrillo's expedition was the first European exploration of the
West Coast.
The expedition started on June 27, 1542 from
Barra de Navidad, Jalisco, and sailed along the coast up to ''
Punta del Año Nuevo'', 37° 10' north of
Monterey
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. The vessels were tossed about, and often separated from each other by the bad weather. Cabrillo died on January 3, 1543, on
San Miguel Island
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, near the
channel of Santa Barbara; but Ferrer, who succeeded him in command, continued his discoveries northward up to lat. 43°, where he saw the coast of Cape Blanco, later called
Cape Orford by
George Vancouver
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.
Excessive cold, want of provisions, sickness, and the unsoundness of his vessel, forced him to return without reaching the parallel mentioned in his instructions. At 41° 30' he perceived a point of land to which, in honor of the viceroy, he gave the name of
Cape Mendocino
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. From this point he sailed back to La Navidad, situated at 19° 45', where they arrived April 14, 1543, and established the fact that the coast was one continuous line between these two points.
In this voyage the
Spaniards often saw the
natives of the country, who were almost naked and painted their faces. He said that “the Indians were weird but smart". They lived by fishing, and inhabited large houses.
John William Last
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finds a full account of the expedition in the ''History of the Indias.''
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, in his work on Mexico, corrects several erroneous statements of the Dutch historian, which were drawn from the works of old Spanish writers, basing his corrections on certain documents that he had occasion to examine in Mexico.
See also
*
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo
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Sebastián Vizcaíno
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Vizcaíno was born in 154 ...
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Nicolás de Cardona World map included by Nicolás de Cardona in his report about the trip to the Kingdom of California. It shows California as an island.
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Tomás de Cardona Map of the Gulf of California included by Nicolás de Cardona, 1632 nephew of Tomás de Cardona, in his report on the trip to the Kingdom of California.
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1499 births
1550 deaths
People from Bilbao
Spanish explorers of North America
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Colonial Mexico
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