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was divided from her consort, and the Master and cer- 

 taine mariners slue the captaine, & usurped over the ship. 

 This was the After this they came to an Island, where the Master with 

 Port of Santa ^ertaine mariners going on land, the Indians of the coun- 

 Isl^ofCali- ^T ^^'^ them, and tooke their boat : and the ship with 

 fornia. those that were in it, returned to the coast of Nueva 



Galicia, where it ran on ground. By the men which 

 came home in this ship, the Marques had knowledge of 

 the countrey which they had discovered : and then, either 

 for the discontentment which hee had with the bishop 

 of Saint Domingo, and with the Judges of this royal 

 audience in Mexico, or rather because of his so pros- 

 perous successe in all things here in Nueva Espanna, 

 [III. 365.] without seeking any farther intelligence of the state of 

 that Island, he set forward on that voyage with 3. Ships, 

 and with certaine footemen and horsemen, not throughly 

 furnished with things necessary ; which fell out so con- 

 trary to his expectation, that the most part of the people 

 which he carryed with him, dyed of hunger. And 

 although he had ships, and a Countrey very neere him 

 abounding with victuals, yet could hee never finde meanes 

 to conquer it, but rather it seemed, that God miracu- 

 lously did hide it from him : and so he returned home 

 without atchieving ought else of moment. After this, 

 having heere in my company Andrew Dorantez, which 

 is one of those who were in the voyage of Panphilo 

 Narvaez, I often was in hand with him, supposing that 

 he was able to doe your Majestic great service, to imploy 

 him with fortie or fiftie horses, to search out the secret 

 of those parts : and having provided all things necessary 

 for his journey, and spent much money in that behalfe, 

 the matter was broken off, I wot not how, and that 

 enterprise was given over. Yet of the things which 

 were provided for that purpose, I had left mee a Negro, 

 which returned from the foresayde voyage of Narvaez, 

 with Dorantez, and certaine slaves which I had bought, 

 and certaine Indians which I had gathered together, who 

 were borne in those North partes, whome I sent with 



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