[1518.] The following year Juan de Grijalva was sent from Cuba to carry on the explorations begun by Córdoba. Grijalva sailed from Santiago de Cuba April 8, 1518, with four vessels, reached the island of Santa Cruz (Cozumel) on the 3d of May, took possession on the 6th of May, and shortly after entered Ascension Bay. From this point he coasted Yucatan 270 leagues, by his estimate, to Puerto Deseado, entered and named the Rio de Grijalva (Tabasco), and took possession of the country in the vicinity of Vera Cruz about the 19th of June. Advancing up the coast to Cabo Rojo, he turned about and entered Rio Tonalá, engaged in a parting fight at Champoton, followed the coast for several weeks, and then turned for Cuba, arriving at Matanzas about the 1st of November. During his absence, Cristóbal de Olid had coasted a large part of Yucatan in search of Grijalva's fleet. _Peter Martyr_, dec. iv. cap. iii.-iv.; _Torquemada_, _Monarq. Ind._, tom. i. pp. 351-8, _Oviedo_, _Hist. Gen._, tom. i. pp. 502-37; _Gomara_, _Conq. Mex._, fol. 8-11, 56-8; _Herrera_, _Hist. Gen._, dec. ii. lib. iii. cap. i. ix.; _Robertson's Hist. Am._, vol. i. pp. 240-4; _Brasseur de Bourbourg_, _Hist. Nat. Civ._, tom. iv. pp. 40-50; _Cogolludo_, _Hist. Yucathan_, pp. 8-16; _Diaz_, _Itinéraire_, in _Ternaux-Compans_, _Voy._, série i. tom. x. pp. 1-47; _Viages Menores_, in _Navarrete_, tom. iii. pp. 53-64; _Alaman_, _Disertaciones_, tom. i. pp. 45-8; _Reise des Johann Grijalva und allererste Entdeckung Neuspaniens_, in _Sammlung_, tom. xiii. p. 258; _Itinerario de Juan de Grijalva_, in _Icazbalceta_, _Col. Doc._, tom. i. p. 281. I may here remark that such manuscript maps, made generally by pilots for government use, as have been preserved are, as might be expected, far superior to those published in geographical works of the period. I give a copy of a Portuguese chart preserved in the Royal Academy at Munich.