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 these latter islands received from Villalobos the name by which history was to know them,—these documents, which for lack of space cannot be here fully presented, deserve a fuller synopsis than do those pertaining to the preceding expeditions of Magalhães, Loaisa, and Saavedra. The documents thus abstracted are to be found in ''Col. doc. inéd. Ultramar, ii, part, pp. 1-94; and in Col. doc. inéd. Amér. y Oceanía,'', pp. 117-209, xiv, pp. 151-165.]

Jalisco, March 28, 1541. The adelantado of Guatemala, Pedro de Alvarado, writes the king, Felipe II, regarding his contract with the viceroy of New Spain, Antonio de Mendoza for expeditions of discovery along the coast and among the Western