The second minor expedition to South America was that of Pedro Alonso Niño and Cristóbal Guerra, similar in its object to that of Ojeda. A few days after Ojeda's departure they sailed from Palos in one vessel with thirty-three men, reaching the main-land farther north, and some fifteen days later than Ojeda. They traded on the coast of Cumaná for three months, their western limit being the region of Chichirivichi, started for home February 13, 1500, and arrived in Spain about the middle of April with a large quantity of pearls. _Peter Martyr_, dec. i. cap. viii.; _Gomara_, _Hist. de las Indias_, fol. 98; _Navarrete_, _Col. de Viages_, tom. ii. p. 147; tom. iii. pp. 11-18, 542; _Irving's Columbus_, vol. iii. p. 37-42; _Humboldt_, _Exam. Crit._, tom. iv. p. 220. The third expedition of this year was that of Vicente Yañez Pinzon, who had commanded a vessel under Columbus in 1492. Sailing early in December, 1499, from Palos with a fleet of four vessels he crossed the equator, and on the 20th of January—Peter Martyr says the 26th, and Irving the 28th of January—discovered land in latitude 8° south, at Cape St Augustine, which he named Santa María de la Consolacion. Varnhagen, _Examen_, pp. 19-24, entertains doubts regarding the spot where Pinzon first landed, and thinks it quite as likely to have been some cape further north. From this point, wherever it may have been, Pinzon followed the coast to the north, touched at various places, discovered the Amazon, and in due time reached the gulf of Paria. Thence he sailed through the Boca del Drago, arrived at Española on the 23d of June, and returned to Spain in September, 1500. This voyage was as disastrous as the preceding one had been profitable. Peter Martyr states, dec. i. cap. ix., that Paria was thought to be a part of Asia beyond the Ganges. See also _De Navigatione Pinzoni Socii Admirantis, et de rebus per eum repertis_, in _Grynæus_, _Novus Orbis_, p. 119; _Navarrete_, _Col. de Viages_, tom. iii. pp. 18-23; _Major's Prince Henry_, p. 369; _Humboldt_, _Exam. Crit._, tom. i. pp. 313-14; tom. iii. p. 221.