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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[932] Pedro M. Marquez to the King, Dec. 12, 1586.

[933] Gomara, Historia, cap. xlii.; Herrera, Historia, dec. iii. lib. v. cap. 5.

[934] Vol. ii. lib. xxi. cap. 8 and 9.

[935] Ecija, Relacion del viage (June-September, 1609).

[936] Vol. iii. pp. 72-73. Recent American writers have taken another view. Cf. Brevoort, Verrazano, p. 70; Murphy, Verrazzano, p. 123.

[937] Historia, lib. xxxvii. cap. 1-4, in vol. iii. pp. 624-633.

[938] Documentos inéditos, iii. 347.

[939] Galvano (Hakluyt Society’s ed., p. 144) gives the current account of his day.

[940] Cf. Vol. IV. p. 28. The capitulacion is given in the Documentos inéditos, xxii. 74.

[941] [Harrisse, Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 239; Sabin, vol. iii. no. 9,767. There is a copy in the Lenox Library. Cf. the Relacion as given in the Documentos inéditos, vol. xiv. pp. 265-279, and the “Capitulacion que se tomó con Panfilo de Narvaez” in vol. xxii. p. 224. There is some diversity of opinion as to the trustworthiness of this narrative; cf. Helps, Spanish Conquest, iv. 397, and Brinton’s Floridian Peninsula, p. 17. “Cabeça has left an artless account of his recollections of the journey; but his memory sometimes called up incidents out of their place, so that his narrative is confused.”—Bancroft: History of the United States, revised edition, vol. i. p. 31.—Ed.]