[803] Asiento y capitulacion que se hizo demas con Joan Ponce de Leon sobre la ysla Binini y la ysla Florida, in the volume of Asientos y capitulaciones(1508-1574), Royal Archives at Seville, in Coleccion de documentos inéditos, xxii. pp. 33-38.
[804] Cédula to the Jeronymite Fathers, July 22, 1517 (Coleccion de documentos inéditos, xi. 295-296). One of these surreptitious voyages was made by Anton de Alaminos as pilot (Ibid., pp. 435-438). [See ante, p. 201, for the voyage of Alaminos.—Ed.]
[805] Ponce de Leon to Charles V., Porto Rico, Feb. 10, 1521.
[806] Extracted from a letter of Ponce de Leon to the Cardinal of Tortosa (who was afterward Pope Adrian VI.), dated at Porto Rico, February 10, 1521.
[807] Herrera, dec. iii. book 1, chap. xiv.; Oviedo, lib. 36, chap. i. pp. 621-623; Barcia, Ensaio cronologico, pp. 5, 6.
[808] Oviedo (edition of Amador de los Rios, ii. 143), gives in his Derrotero, “la bahia que llaman de Miruelos” as west of Apalache Bay. See Barcia’s Ensaio cronológico, p. 2.
[809] [The Córdoba of chap. iii. ante.—Ed.]
[810] [See chap. vi. of the present volume.—Ed.]
[811] The great river might be supposed to be the Rio Grande; but its volume is scarcely sufficient to justify the supposition, while the Mississippi is indicated on the map of his province with its name R. del Espiritu Santo, evidently given by Garay.
[812] [See ante, p. 218.—Ed.]