southwest 300. leagues and named the countrey thereabout Noua Francia: at length finding the water fresh he perceiued he could not passe through to the South sea, and hauing wintered in those partes, the next yeere following he returned into France.
In the yeere 1535. or in the beginning of the yeere 1536. Don Antonie de Mendoça came vnto the citie of Mexico as Viceroy of New Spaine.[1] In the mean while Cortes was gone for more men to commence his discouerie, which immediately he set in hand sending foorth two ships from Tecoantepec which he had made readie. There went as captaines in them Fernando de Grijalua, and Diego Bezerra de Mendoça, and for pilots there went a Portugal named Acosta, and the other Fortunio Ximenez a Biscaine. The first night they deuided themselues. Fortunio Ximenez killed his captaine Bezerra and hurt many of his confederacie:
Plaia de Santa Cruz. and then he went on land to take water and wood in the Bay of Santa Cruz, but the Indians there slue him and aboue 20, of his companie. Two mariners which were in the boate escaped, and went vnto Xalisco, and told Nunnez de Gusman that they had found tokens of pearles: he went into the ship, and so went to seeke the pearles: he discouered along the coast aboue 150. leagues.
The Isle of S. Thomas. They said that Ferdinando de Grijalua sailed three hundred leagues from Tecoantepec without seeing any land, but onely one Island which he named The Isle of Saint Thomas, because he came vnto it on that Saints day: it standeth in 20. degrees of latitude.
Lima builded. In this yeere 1535. Pisarro builded the citie de los Reyes vpon the riuer of Lima. The inhabitants of Xauxa went to dwell there, because it was a better countrey, standing in 12. degrees of southerly latitude.[2]
Truxillo. In this same yeere 1535. he caused the citie of Truxillo to be builded on a riuers side vpon a fruitfull soile, standing in 8. degrees on that side.
S. Iago de Porto viejo. He built also the citie of Saint Iago in Porto Viejo: besides many others along the sea coast and within the land: where there breede many horses, asses, mules, kine, hogs, goates, sheepe, and other beasts; also trees and plants, but principally rosemary, oranges, limons, citrons, and other sower fruits, vines, wheate,
