Although several Expeditions of the _Spaniards_ to _America_ prov’d very unsuccessful at the first, yet they still undertook them afresh, and with renewing Courage: _Ferdinando Sottus_, though he Landed five hundred Men in _Florida_, yet brought no Treasure from thence, onely he cut off the Hands of fifteen Princes, because they would not discover their Mines of Gold. [Sidenote: Miserable end of _Narvaez_.] Yet far worse success had _Pamphilus Narvaez_, who lost both his Fleet and Men, saving onely ten out of six hundred, in the River _Palma_, and they also afterwards dy’d there, or eat one another to satisfie their raging Hunger. [Sidenote: _Cortez_ his Voyage.] [Sidenote: Remarkable delivery.] But much better was the fortune of _Ferdinando Cortez_, Sailing from _Spain_ to _America_, in the Year 1519. who having the Command given him over ten stout Ships, and three Frigats with five hundred Foot, and an additional Force of sixteen Horse, rais’d by the new _Spanish_ Inhabitants on Cuba; with which Forces Landing on the Island _Cozumella_, he prohibited Humane Sacrifice to their Idols, and Erected a Cross with the Image of the Virgin _Mary_, in one of their Temples, and releas’d _Hieronimus Aquilaris_, after a seven years Slavery, having suffer’d Shipwrack with _Valdivia_; at which time some that sav’d themselves in the Boat, were by the Current in thirty days driven to _Jucatan_, in which time seven dy’d of Hunger; the rest going ashore, were no sooner Landed, but Sacrific’d by the Natives to their Gods or _Zemes_. Among the six that remain’d, yet left alive, and to be offer’d after the same manner the next day, was this _Aquilaris_, who with his Companions, breaking Prison, in the following night fled to a Neighboring Prince their Enemy, and one that maintain’d a continual War against these _Cannibals_. [Sidenote: Strange Battel.] [Sidenote: _Potanchanum_, a City.] [Sidenote: _Colvacan_ Books, of what fashion, as also their Temples.]