Three of the seven ships comprising Spain’s second spice-buying expedition to the East Indies had not make it through the Straits of Magellan, and a typhoon had scattered the four survivors upon their emergence into the Pacific.

One ship will eventually end up on the Pacific Coast of what will soon be organized as New Spain (Mexico); another has disappeared; The third ship, Santa María del Parral, has sailed the Pacific to Sangir off the northern coast of Sulawesi, where the ship is beached and its crew are variously killed or enslaved by the natives.

Four survivors will be rescued in 1528 by another Spanish expedition coming from Mexico.