[14] The first exploration of the coast of Alta California was made in 1542-43 by an expedition commanded by a pilot in the Spanish service, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo. Sailing in the San Salvador and Victoria from Navidad, Mexico, in June 1542, they examined the coast northward from Cape San Lucas to Point Reyes in some detail, discovering the bays of San Diego, Monterey, and others, but not of San Francisco. When Rodríguez Cabrillo died in January 1543, his successor, Bartolomé Ferello (Ferrer), made another cast to the north, probably sighting Point Arena in 38°57' N (possibly Ring-rose's Pta. Baja on Chart 3A). The survivors returned to Navidad in April 1543. Other expeditions to Alta California before 1680 were those of Francis Drake in 1579, Francisco Gali in 1584, Sebastián Rodriguez Cermeño in 1595, and Sebastián Vizcaíno in 1602-3.