Besides This Place
There Are Pearls For Above 400 Leagues Along This Coast, All The Way From
Cape De La
Vela to the gulf of Paria; for Admiral Christopher Columbus,
besides Cubagua, which he named the Island of Pearls, found
Them all along
the coast of Paria and Cumana, at Maracapana, Puerto Flechado, and
Curiana, which last is near Venezuela.
SECTION V.
Alonzo de Hojeda and Diego de Nicuessa are commissioned to make
Discoveries and Settlements in the New World, with an account of the
adventures and misfortunes of Hojeda.
Among the adventurers who petitioned the court of Spain for licenses to
make discoveries, was Alonzo de Hojeda, a brave man, but very poor, who
had spent all he had hitherto gained; but John de la Cosa, who had been
his pilot and had saved money, offered to assist him with his life and
fortune. They got the promise of a grant of all that had been discovered
on the continent; but one Diego Nicuessa interposed, and being a richer
man, with better interest, he stopped their grant and procured half of it
to himself. Hojeda and Cosa got a grant of all the country from Cape De
la Vela to the gulf of Uraba, now called the Gulf of Darien, the
country appropriated to them being called New Andalusia; while Nicuessa
received the grant of all the country from the before-mentioned gulf to
Cape Garcias a Dios, under the name of Castilla del Oro, or Golden
Castile. In neither of these grants was any notice taken of the admiral,
to whom, of right, all these countries belonged, as having being
discovered by his father.
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