giuen for one of them 1200 ducats. This Island of Tararequi standeth in 5. degrees of latitude towardes the north.
In this yeere 1515. in the moneth of March the gouernour sent one Gonsaluo de Badaios with 80. soldiers to discouer new lands, and they went from Dariene to Nombre de Dios, where came vnto them one Lewis de Mercado with fiftie men more, which the gouernour sent to aide him.[1] They determined to discouer toward the South, saying that the countrey was the richest. They tooke with them Indians to be their guides, and going along the coast they found slaues marked with irons as the Portugals doe vse; and hauing marched a good way through the countreyes with great trauaile gathered together much golde and fortie slaues to doe them seruice: but one Casique named Pariza did set vpon them and slue and tooke the most part of them.
The gouernour hearing of these newes, the same yeere 1515. sent foorth his sonne Iohn Arias de Auila to be reuenged and to discouer also by sea and by land:
Cape de Guerra. Punta de Borica. Cape Blanco. Panama peopled. They went westward to Cape de Guerra standing in little more than sixe degrees towards the north, and from thence vnto Punta de Borica, and to Cape Blanco or the White Cape standing in 8. degrees and an halfe: they discouered 250. leagues as they affirme, and peopled the citie of Panama.
An ambassage to Ismail king of Persia. In this very yeere 1515. in the moneth of May Alfonsus de Albuquerque gouernour of India sent from the citie of Ormuz one Fernando Gomes de Lemos as ambassadour vnto Xec or Shaugh Ismael king of Persia:[2] and it is declared that they trauailed in it 300. leagues, and that it is a pleasant countrey like vnto France. This Xec or Shaugh Ismael went on hunting and fishing for troutes, whereof there are many. And there be the fairest women in all the world. And so Alexander the great affirmed, when he called them The women with golden eies. And this yeere this woorthy Viceroy Alfonsus de Albuquerque died.
In the yeere 1416. and one hundred yeeres after the taking of Ceuta in Barbarie, Lopes Souares being gouernour of India, there was a dispatch made by the commandement of the kings highnes vnto one Fernando Perez de Andrada to passe to the
