thence forward peopled. Afterward passing without Samatra they met with no land till they fell with the Cape of Bona Sperança, where they tooke in fresh water and wood: So they came by the Islands of Cape Verde, and from thence to Siuill, where they were notably receiued, as well for the cloues that they brought, as that they had compassed about the world.
In the yeere 1522. in Ianuarie one Gilgonzales armed fower ships in the Island of Tararequi standing in the South sea with intent to discouer the coast of Nicaragua,[1] and especially streight or passage from the South sea into the North sea. And sailing along the coast he came into an hauen called S. Vincent, and there landed with 100. Spanyards and certaine horsemen, and went within the land 200. leagues, and he brought with him 200. pesoes of gold, and so came backe againe to S. Vincent: where he found his pilot Andrew Nigno, who was as far as Tecoantepec in 16. degrees to the north, and had sailed three hundred leagues: from whence they returned to Panama, and so ouer land to Hispaniola.[2]
Two Islands in 16. degrees of northerly latitude.
42 degrees of northerly latitude.
In the same yeere 1522. in the moneth of Aprill the other ship
of Magallanes called The Trinitie went from the Island of Tidore,
wherein was captaine Gonzalo Gomez de Espinosa, shaping their
course toward Noua Spania:[3] and because winde was scant they
stirred toward the northeast into 16. degrees, where
they found two Islands, and named them the Isles of
Saint Iohn, and in that course they came to another
Island in 20. degrees, which they named La Griega,
where the simple people came into their ships, of whom they kept
some to shew them in Noua Spania:[4] They were in this course
fower monethes, vntill they came into 42. degrees of
northerly latitude, where they did see sea fishes called
Seales and Tunies. And the climate seemed vnto
them comming newly out of the heat, to be so cold and vntemperate,
that they could not well abide it, and therefore they turned
backe againe to Tidore, being thereunto enforced also by contrarie
windes. These were the first Spanyards which had beene
in so high a latitude toward the north. And there they found
