Note 2 — Notes on the Polynesian Calendar.

On October 31, 1527, according to Burney, three vessels left a port called Zivat-Lanejo, said by Galvoam to be situated in latitude 20 north, on the coast of New Spain, for the Moluccas or Spice Islands. They were the Florida with fifty men, the St. Jago with forty-five men, and the Espiritu Santo with fifteen men, under command of Alvaro de Saavedra, with thirty pieces of cannon and merchandise. These vessels were said to have sailed in company for 1000 leagues2 and then to have been separated by bad weather. The two smaller vessels were never afterward heard of, and Saavedra pursued the voyage alone. (Burney, Discoveries in the South Seas, I, 147–148.)