Francisco de Garay, governor of Jamaica, prompted by the reports of Ponce de Leon, Córdoba, and Grijalva, despatched four vessels in 1519, under Alonso Alvarez Pineda, who sailed northward to a point on the Pánuco coast (where, according to Gomara, an expedition had been sent during the preceding year, under Camargo). Prevented by winds and shoals from coasting northward as he desired, he sailed along in sight of the low gulf shores until he reached Vera Cruz, where he found the fleet of Cortés. Troubles between the commanders arose from this meeting which will be narrated hereafter. Garay continued for some time his attempts to found a settlement in the region of Pánuco, but without success. _Peter Martyr_, dec. v. cap. i.; _Gomara_, _Hist. Ind._, fol. 55-6; _West-Indische Spieghel_, p. 202; _Gomara_, _Hist. Conq._, fol. 222-7; _Viages Menores_, in _Navarrete_, tom. iii. pp. 64-7; _Kunstmann_, _Entdeckung Am._, p. 73. Soon after landing at Vera Cruz Cortés despatched for Spain a vessel under the pilot Antonio de Alaminos, with messengers who were to clear up before the king certain irregularities which the determined conqueror had felt obliged to commit, and furthermore to establish his authority upon a more defined basis. Alaminos sailed July 16, 1519, following a new route north of Cuba, through the Bahama Channel, and down the Gulf Stream, of which current he was probably the first to take advantage. Touching at Cuba and discovering Terceira he reached Spain in October. _Diaz del Castillo_, _Hist. Verdadera de la Conqvista_, Madrid, 1632, fol. 37-9; _Herrera_, _Hist. Gen._, dec. ii. lib. v. cap. xiv.; _Kohl's Hist. Discov._, pp. 243-5. The history of the Darien colonies is elsewhere recounted in this volume, and the introduction here of the numerous land and water expeditions on and along the Isthmus would be confusing and unprofitable. Suffice it to say that in 1519 the city of Panamá was founded, and a second expedition sent under Gaspar de Espinosa up the South Sea coast. The northern limit reached was the gulf of San Lúcar (Nicoya), latitude 10° north, in Nicaragua, and the expedition returned to Panamá by land from Burica. _Andagoya's Narrative of the Proceedings of Pedrarias Dávila_, London, 1865, pp. 23-4; _Kohl_, _Die beiden ältesten Karten von Am._, p. 162; _Oviedo_, _Hist Gen._, tom. iii. p. 61 et seq.