[XVI-2] Consisting of gold from 12 to 18 carats by actual assay, amounting to 17,000 pesos de oro; of an inferior quality, known as hachas, 15,363 pesos; in rattle-shaped pieces, said to be of no standard value, 6,182 pesos. Gil Gonzalez Dávila, Carta al Rey, MS. There were likewise 145 pesos worth of pearls, of which 80 pesos' worth were obtained from the Pearl Islands. Relacion del viage que hizo Gil Gonzalez Dávila, in Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., xiv. 20-24. This document gives in detail, beside the quantity of pearls secured, the distance journeyed, the dimensions of the islands, the names of the provinces through which they passed, with their caciques, the gold taken from each, and the souls baptized. There are also here given, 5-20, id., Andrés Niño, Relacion del asiento, or agreement with the king; Relacion de lo que va en la armada, with the cost of outfit, etc.
[XVI-3] The 10th of March, 1524, the royal officers at Española, Miguel de Pasamonte and Alonso Dávila, write the king that Captain Gil Gonzalez Dávila is there about to embark 'to seek the strait from north to south'—'Torna agora á buscar el Estrecho de Norte á Sur.' Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., i. 440.
[XVI-4] 'El mal tiempo echo a la mar algunos de los cavallos que llevava, de donde le quedó el nombre.' Herrera, dec. iii. lib. v. cap. xii. Oviedo mentions the death of a horse which was buried with great secrecy, lest the natives should learn they were mortal. Fernando Colon, in 1527, writes a: de cauallos; Ribero, in 1529, C∴ de cauallos; Vaz Dourado, 1571, p∴ de caualos, with the name triqueste next west; De Laet, 1633, Po de Cavallos; Ogilby, 1671, Pta d. Cavallos; Jefferys, 1776, Pto Cavallos; and to-day as in the text.
[XVI-5] Oviedo, iii. 114, says that two or three days afterward Soto and his companions were released upon parole, and their arms restored them.
[XVI-6] Town, port, and cape. Some English charts still retain the name Cape Triunfo. Ribero writes t'ũfo de la c̃z; Vaz Dourado, triumfo dellai, the next name west being piita de la call, and next to this, rio de pochi, which Ribero calls R∴ d' pechi. Next west of this name Ribero places p∴o de hellados. Ogilby, De Laet, Jefferys, and others give Triumpho or Triumfo de la Cruz.
[XVII-1] See [chapter iv., note 6, this volume].
[XVII-2] 'Una que llaman Hueitapalan y en otra lengua Xucutaco ... ocho ó diez jornadas de aquella villa de Trujillo.' Cortés, Cartas, 469. 'Higueras y Hõduras, que tenian fama de mucho oro y buena tierra.' Gomara, Hist. Mex., 233.
[XVII-3] Cartas, 315, letter of 13 Oct., 1524. The letter of the emperor commanding him to search both coasts is dated 6 June, 1523.
[XVII-4] Soldiers, 370, including 100 archers and arquebusiers, and 22 horses, says Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 176. 'Por todos çinco navios gruessos ó caravelas é un bergantin.' Oviedo, iii. 459.