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Rh to make slaves of them. We believe, although we do not positively know it, that the said Diego Velasquez, Lieutenant of the Admiral, owned a fourth part of the armada. One of the owners of the said armada, called Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba, went as its Captain, taking as pilot a resident of the town of Palos, one Anton de Alaminos, whom we have also now as pilot, and whom we have sent to Your Royal Highnesses that he may furnish information to Your Majesties.

Pursuing their voyage, they arrived at the said Island of Yucatan, at its uttermost point, which may be sixty or seventy leagues both from the  Discovery of Yucatan

said Island of Fernandina, and from this country of the rich land of Vera Cruz, [thus in the MS. where in the name of Your Royal Highnesses. At this point they disembarked at a town called Campoche, whose chief they named