The fourth minor expedition of this year was that of Diego de Lepe, who sailed in less than a month after Pinzon—that is near the end of December, 1499—with two vessels. Touching main-land below Cape St Augustine, he observed the south-western trend of the coast below that point; but of his voyage along the shore nothing is known save that he reached the Pearl Coast. Before the 5th of June he had returned to Spain. _Navarrete_, _Col. de Viages_, tom. iii. pp. 23-4, 553-5; _Humboldt_, _Exam. Crit._, tom. i. pp. 314-15; tom. iv. pp. 221-2. There are some scattered hints collected in _Biddle's Memoir of Sebastian Cabot_, pp. 91 et seq., of a new expedition in 1499 by the Cabots, directed this time to tropical regions. They are not sufficient to render it probable that such a voyage was made, although Ojeda reported that he found several Englishmen cruising on the Pearl Coast. _Viages Menores_, in _Navarrete_, tom. iii. p. 41; _Kohl's Hist. Discov._, p. 145. [1500.] In this year Cristóbal Guerra made a second voyage to the Pearl Coast with some success, and returned to Spain before November 1, 1501. _Navarrete_, _Col. de Viages_, tom. iii. pp. 24-5. Spain also made preparations to explore the northern lands discovered by the Cabots, but without any known results. _Peschel_, _Geschichte der Entd._, Stuttgart, 1858, p. 316; _Navarrete_, _Col. de Viages_, tom. iii. pp. 41-46; _Biddle's Mem. Cabot_, p. 236; _Kohl's Hist. Discov._, pp. 192-3. In _Diccionario Universal, Apénd._, article 'Viages,' p. 805, is mentioned a voyage to the Pearl Coast by Alonso Velez de Mendoza in two vessels. No authorities are given.