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that the foldlers gained by this difcovery, from which we came back, 

 poor and wounded, and thought thofe fortunate who had reached their 

 homes alive, for our lofs from firft to laft amounted to feventy of our 

 number. Diego Velafquez wrote to his patron the Bifliop of Burgos 

 relating the particulars of his difcovery and the expences he had been at, 

 for all which he obtained fame and credit with his Majefty, but not a 

 fyllable was faid of the poor foldiers who had expended their properties, 

 and loft, or rifqued, their lives in the expedition. 



Three foldiers of us whofe objed was to reach the town of Trini- 

 dad, as foon as our wounds were healed, agreed with an inhabitant of 

 the Havannah who was going thither in a canoe with a cargo of cotton 

 to fell, for our palTage, for which he was to be paid ten crowns in gold. 

 Accordingly we embarked with him, and after coafting for eleven days, 

 ^I'e arrived near an Indian town named Canarreon, where we were driven 

 on fhore by a violent gale of wind. The canoe was dafhed to pieces, 

 and we with difficulty reached the land, naked, wounded, andbruifed, 

 by the violence of the waves. We had no refource but in the clothing 

 adopted by the firft pair, and in the fame wood where we procured this, 

 we found a fpecies of tough flexible roots called Bejucos, with which 

 we tied on our feet fandals made of the bark of trees, which we cut out 

 for that purpofe with (harp ftones ; and travelling thus for two days, 

 we came to the village of Yaguarrama where Fray Bartholome de las 

 Cafas afterwards bifhop of Chiapa was then pariihi prieft. On the next 

 day I went to another town named Chipiona, belonging to Alonzo de 

 Avila, where, at the houfe of a friend named Anthonio de Medina I got 

 clothed, and then purfued my journey to St. Jago, where I found the 

 governor Velafquez bufily employed in fiting out another armament for 

 difcovery. As he was my relation, and alfo as governor, I went to 

 wait upon him, and after paying him my refped:s, he alked me if I was 

 able to undertake another expedition to Yucatan. I told him that he 

 fliould fay the land of wounds and calamity; to which he anfwered 

 that he knew we had fuffered much in the former voyage, but that 



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