Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 2 (of 8) / Spanish Explorations and Settlements in America from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century

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[693] Ibid., xxxii. 231, 236, 240, 257.

[694] See document of October 5, 1511, in Navarrete, Coleccion, iii. 120, and of Oct. 6, 1511, in Documentos inéditos, xxxii. 284.

[695] Other references are Oviedo, ii. 421; Las Casas, iii. 289-311; Peter Martyr, dec. ii. chap. i.; Herrera, dec. i. lib. 7, chaps. vii., xi., xiv.-xvi., and lib. 8, iii.-v.; Navarrete, Coleccion, iii. 170; Quintana, U. S., pp. 281, 301; Helps, i. 287-296; Bancroft, Central America, i. 289-301; Irving, Companions, pp. 54-102.

[696] See, however, on the career of Nicuesa after leaving Cartagena the following authorities: Oviedo, ii. 465-477; Las Casas, iii. 329-347; Peter Martyr, dec. ii. chaps. ii.-iii.; Herrera, dec. i. lib. 7, chap. xvi., and lib. 8, chaps. i.-iii. and viii.; Vidas de Españoles célebres in vol. xix. of Biblioteca de autores Españoles, obras completas del Excímo Sr. D. Manuel José Quintana, p. 283; Helps, i. 303-317; Bancroft, Central America, i. 289-308, and 336, note; Irving, Companions, pp. 103-117, 138-146.

[697] Cf. Navarrete, Biblioteca marítima española, ii. 409.

[698] Quintana, U. S., pp. 281-300.

[699] Navarrete, Coleccion, iii. 358-375.

[700] Narrative ... of Pascual de Andagoya, translated by C. R. Markham for the Hakluyt Society, 1865, Introduction, pp. iii, xix.

[701] Oviedo, iii. 4-21; Las Casas, iii. 312-328, iv. 66-134; Peter Martyr, dec. ii. chaps. iii.-vi., dec. iii. chap. i.; Herrera, dec. i. lib. 9 and 10, with the exception of chap. vii. of book 10, which relates to Pedrárias, and of a few other chapters with regard to the affairs of Velasquez, etc.; Galvano, Hakluyt Society ed., p. 124; Helps, i. 321-352, and chap. iv. of his Pizarro; Bancroft, Central America, i. 129, 133, 330-385, 438; and Mexico, iii. 558; Irving, Companions, pp. 136-212 and 254-276; Ruge, Geschichte des Zeitalters der Entdeckungen, p. 347.

[702] Cf. Bancroft, Central America, i. 364, note. Irving unluckily followed Peter Martyr, as Bancroft shows. [Humboldt is inclined to magnify the significance of the information which Columbus in his third voyage got, as looking to a knowledge, by the Spaniards, of the south sea as early as 1503. Cf. his Relation historique du voyage aux régions équinoxiales, iii. 703, 705, 713; Cosmos, Eng. tr. (Bohn), ii. 642; Views of Nature (Bohn), p. 432.—Ed.]