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ment nor any other persons would give or lend money to us for the 

 repair of the ships. Perceiving that otherwise the ships would be 

 lost, and that it was indispensable for the service of His Majesty, I 

 lent the General all the money which I had of my own, and I re- 

 ceived an acknowledgment for 1400 2Jesos (dollars), with which the 

 ships were refitted ; and they were victualled for another piece of 

 gold of 400 pesos : all this I lent for the service of His Majesty. 



" We left this port, which is in latitude 12^,° on the 28th of May. 

 Sailing to the Cabo de Guion (Cape Guion), we lay up thence for 

 the coast of Peru. On the 4th of June we lost sight of the coast of 

 Nicaragua ; and on the oth we passed to leeward of Mai Pelo Island.^ 

 On the morninsT of the 11th we were off Facames,^ which lies four 

 leagues below the Cabo del San Francisco (Cape San Francisco) on 

 the coast of Peru. On the 14th we anchored in Puerto-viejo ; and 

 on the 19fch we reached Point Santa Elena. On Sunday, the 26th of 

 June,^ Don Fernando Henriquez left with the news for Lima or the 

 City of the Kings." 



Laus Deo. 



iThe Malpelo Island of the present charts. 



2 This is evidently Atacames, which has the position described. 



3 The two last dates are referred to as July. This is apparently a mistake, and I have, 

 therefore, corrected it in the translation. 



