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Sandoval and Ocampo having thus cleared the colony of thefe trou- 

 blefome inmates, returned to Mexico, leaving an officer of the name of 

 Vallecillo governor of the fettlement. On their arrival they were received 

 by Cortes and every one there as their fervices merited, for a general 

 apprehenfion prevailed of fome misfortune occurring on that expedition. 

 Such was the fuccefs of the meafures purfued as I have above related, 

 that there never was another infurredion in that province. 



The reader has been told how the Licentiate Zuazo met with Garay 

 in the Ifland of Cuba, and that the latter made preffing invitations to 

 him to take a part in his expedition. Zuazo agreed to this propofal, 

 and promifed to follow, as foon as he could give up his office. Hay- 

 ing effed:ed this he embarked, taking with him two brothers of the.or-- 

 der of mercy, Fra Gonzalo de Pontevedra, and Fra Juan, de Varillas. 

 Thefe three perfons purfuing their voyage, fell among fome fmall iflands 

 -named Las Viboras, very fatal to veffels. Here, they were obliged to 

 throw overboard their provifions, and the pieces of pork attradted \ 

 number of fliarks, one of which feized a failor, and tore him to pieces, 

 fo that the whole water round them was difcoloured with his blood. 

 They were then obliged to run the veffel on fbore, and in this fituation. 

 they were left. Two Indians of Cuba who were with them had the art 

 of obtaining fire by rubbing two dry fticks together; in the fand' they 

 found forae brackifh water, and a quantity of turtles came alhore to lay 

 their eggs.. Thus they obtained provifions fufficient to fuftain thirteen 

 perfons. The failors alfo contrived; to kill the fea wolves which in the 

 night were frequently found on. the ffiore. Amongft the crew w^ere 

 two (hip carpenters,, who had preferved their working tools. Out of 

 the wreck of the veffel they conflru<Sted a fmall failing boat in which 

 three mariners and one Indian embarked for New Spain, and made the 

 port of Calchocuca in the river Vanderas. From thence they went to 

 Medellin, and informing the governor of the fituation in which they 

 had left tbc Licentiate, he fent a velTel in fearch of them.. The veffel, 



arrived 



