156-8; _Stevens' Notes_, pp. 31-2. [Sidenote: OCCUPATION OF TIERRA FIRME.] [1509.] Stimulated by the admiral's gold discoveries at Veragua, which had been corroborated by subsequent voyages. King Ferdinand of Spain determined to establish colonies on that coast. The region known as Tierra Firme was to that end divided into two provinces, of which Alonso de Ojeda was appointed governor of one, and Diego de Nicuesa of the other. Ojeda sailed from Española November 10, 1509, and Nicuesa soon followed. Their adventures form an important part of early Central American history, and are fully related in the following chapters. During the succeeding years frequent voyages were made back and forth between the new colonies, Jamaica, Cuba, and Española, which are for the most part omitted here as not constituting new discoveries. _Peter Martyr_, dec. ii. cap. i.; _Gomara_, _Hist. Ind._, fols. 67-9; _Galvano's Discov._, p. 109-10; _Oviedo_, _Hist. Gen._, tom. ii. pp. 421-8; _Herrera_, _Hist. Gen._, dec. i. cap. vii. lib. vii. et seq. The _Globus Mundi_, Strasburg, 1509, an anonymous work, was the first to apply the name America to the southern continent. _Humboldt_, _Exam. Crit._, tom. iv. p. 142; _Major's Prince Henry_, p. 387. [Illustration: PETER MARTYR'S MAP, 1511.] [1511.] Juan de Agramonte received a commission from the Spanish government, and made arrangements to sail to Newfoundland and the lands of the north-western ocean, but nothing further is known of the matter. _Viages Menores_, in _Navarrete_, tom. iii. p. 42; _Sobrecarta de la Reina Doña Juana_, in _Navarrete_, tom. iii. p. 122. _P. Martyris_, _Anglimediolanensis opera_, Seville, 1511, is the first edition of Peter Martyr's first decade; containing in ten letters, or books, accounts of the first three voyages of Columbus, certain expeditions to the Pearl Coast, and closing with a brief mention of the admiral's fourth voyage. The learned author was personally acquainted with Columbus, and his relations are consequently of great value. This work contains a map, of which I give a copy from Stevens, the only fac-simile I have seen.