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La plaia de Santa Cruz, where he went on land, and commanded Andrew de Tapia to discouer.

Cortes tooke shipping againe and came to the riuer now called Rio de San Pedro y San Paulo, where by a tempest the ships were separated, one was driuen to the bay de Santa Cruz, another to the riuer of Guajaual, and the third was driuen on shore hard by Xalisco, and the men thereof went by land to Mexico.

Cortes long expected his two ships that he wanted: but they not comming he hoised saile and entered into the Gulfe now called Mar de Cortes, Mar Vermejo, or the Gulfe of California, and shot himselfe 50. leagues within it: where he espied a ship at and sailing towards her he had beene lost, if that ship had not succored him. But hauing graued his ship, he departed with both the ships from thence. Hee bought victuals at a decree rate at Saint Michael of Culhuacan; and from thence he went to the hauen of Santa Cruz, where he heard that Don Antonio de Mendoça was come out of Spaine to be Viceroy. He therefore left to be captaine of his men one Francis de Vlloa, to send him certaine ships to discouer the coast. While he was at Acapulco messengers came vnto him from Don Antonio de Mendoça the Viceroy, to certifie him of his arriuall: and also he sent him the coppie of a letter, wherein Francis Pisarro wrote, that Mango Ynga was risen against him, and was come to the citie of Cusco with an hundred thousand fighting men, and that they had killed his brother Iohn Pisarro, and aboue 400. Spaniards and 200. horses, and he himselfe was in danger, so that he demanded succour and aide. Cortes being informed of the state of Pisarro, and of the arriuall of Don Antonio de Mendoça because he would not as yet be at obedience; First he determined to sende to Maluco to discouer that way a long vnder the Equinoctial line, because The Islands of Cloues stand vnder that paralele: And for that purpose he prepared 2. ships with prouisions, victuals, and men, besides all other things necessarie. He gaue the charge of one of these ships to Ferdinando de Grijalua, and of the other vnto one Aluarado a Gentlemen. They went first to Saint Michael de Tangarara in Peru to succour Francis Pisarro, and from thence to Maluco all along neere the line as they were commanded. And it is de-*