FRANCIS DE ULLOA a.d. 



1539- 



to the port of Santa Cruz, whereat we were sory, because 

 we were alwaies in good hope to find some out-let into 

 the maine Ocean in some place of that land, and that 

 the same port was the same out-let, and also that by 

 the sayd coast we might returne to the foresayd haven 

 of Santa Cruz, and that we had committed a great error, 

 because we had not certainely sought out the secret, 

 whether that were a Streit or a river, which wee had 

 left behind us unsearched at the bottome of this great 

 sea or gulfe. 



All Friday and the night following we sayled with a 

 scant winde, and on Saturday at breake of day we were 

 betweene two points of land which make a bay, wherein ^ hay with 4 

 we saw before and behinde foure or five great and small ^^ 5 l^l^^ds. 

 Islands. The land was very mountainous, part wherof 

 was covered with grasse, and part was voide. Within 

 the land appeared more mountaines and hils, and in this 

 place we were come neere unto the haven of Santa Cruz, 

 which is all firme land, except it be divided in the very 

 nooke by some streite or great river which parteth it 

 from the maine, which because we had not throughly 

 discovered, all of us that were imployed in this voyage 

 were not a little grieved. And this maine land stretcheth 

 so farre in length, that I cannot well expresse it : for 

 from the haven of Acapulco, which standeth in seven- 

 teene degrees and twenty minutes of latitude, wee had 

 alwayes the coast of the firme land on our right hand, un- 

 till we came to the great current of the white & red sea : This current 

 and here (as 1 have said) we knew not the secret of this ^^/^ ^^5% 

 current, whether it were caused by a river or by a streit : ^^^ ^^J ^white 

 and so supposing that the coast which wee had on our and red, 

 right hand was closed up without passage, wee returned 

 backe againe, alwayes descending Southward by our 

 degrees, untill wee returned unto the sayd haven of This returne 

 Santa Cruz, finding still along the coast a goodly and ^^ mentioned 

 pleasant countrey, and still seeing fires made by the ^^^" ^* 

 Indians, and Canoas made of Canes. We determined 

 to take in fresh water at the haven of Santa Cruz, to 

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