- E. [12] In Astley, The Ship Commanded By Pedro Mendoza, Is Said To Have Been Stranded During The Homeward Voyage, Fourteen Leagues From The _Aguada_, Or Watering-Place Of St Blas, And Never More Heard Of.

- Astl. I. 58.

[13] Astley concludes the account of the honours conferred on Pacheco in the following words: "But soon after imprisoned, and allowed him to die miserably. A terrible example of the uncertainty of royal favour, and the little regard that is had to true merit!" - Astl. I. 58.

CHAPTER VII.

LETTERS FROM LISBON IN THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY, RESPECTING THE THEN RECENT DISCOVERY OF THE ROUTE BY SEA TO INDIA.[1]

INTRODUCTION.

The following letters bear to have been written by some Italian public agents and merchants, to their employers and friends, and contain a curious record of the first impressions made on the public mind by the wonderful discoveries which navigation was then opening up to the European world. They are selected from the _Novus Orbis_, a work which was published by _Simon Grynaeus_ early in the sixteenth century. According to M. de la Richarderie,[2] this collection was formed by Hans Heteirs, canon of Strasburg, and was printed under the care of Simon Grynaeus, by Isaac Hervag, in folio, at Basil in 1532. We learn likewise that it passed rapidly through several editions, having been reprinted at Basil in 1535, 1537, and 1555; and at Paris in 1582. The edition used on the present occasion is printed at Basil in 1555 by Jo.

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