[1522.] Pomponius Mela, _De Orbis Sitv_, Basiliæ, 1522, reproduced Apianus' map of 1520 (see page 137), also _Kohl_, _Beiden ältesten Karten_, p. 33. The _Ptolemy_ of this year, edited by Frisius, contains two maps resembling in their general appearance the Ptolemy map of 1513, and showing but little advance in geographical knowledge. These maps are also in the edition of 1525. _Asher's Catalogue_, no. civ., Berlin, 1873. _Translationus hispanischer_, etc., n.p., n.d., has a slight notice of the City of Mexico. _Ein Schöne Newe Zeytung_, Augsburg (1522), notices the voyages of Columbus and the conquest of Mexico. _Of the newe lãdes and of ye people founde by the Messengers of the Kynge of portygale_, attributed to this year, is regarded as the first book in English to treat of America, which it calls Armenica. _Cortés_, _Carta de Relaciõ_, Seville, 1522, is the letter dated October 30, 1520, supposed to be the conqueror's second letter, the first having been lost. Eight other editions or translations appeared in various forms before 1532. In 1522 Pascual de Andagoya followed the west coast of America southward from Panamá, to a point six or seven days' sail below the gulf of San Miguel in the province of Birú (Peru), a little beyond Point Pinos. Information obtained during this expedition concerning more southern lands, furnished the motive for the conquest of Peru undertaken a few years later by Francisco Pizarro. _Pascual de Andagoya_, _Narrative_, pp. 40-1. Gil Gonzalez Dávila with a fleet of four vessels sailed from the islands in the Bay of Panamá, January 21, 1522, to explore the South Sea coast north-westward. Reaching the gulf of Nicoya, the limit of Espinosa's voyage, Gil Gonzalez proceeded by land and discovered Lake Nicaragua. The pilot Andres Niño continued westward, discovered and named the gulf of Fonseca, and reached, according to Herrera, dec. iii. lib. iv. cap. v.-vi., the province of Chorotega, having discovered 350 leagues of sea-coast from Nicoya, or 650 leagues from the gulf of San Miguel. Peter Martyr places Niño's ultimate limit at 300 leagues beyond the gulf of San Vicente; Ribero's map at 140 leagues west of the bay of Fonseca. Kohl, _Beiden ältesten Karten von Am._, pp. 163-9, thinks he probably reached the mountains south of Soconusco. See also _Navarrete_, _Col. de Viages_, tom. iii. pp. 413, 417-18; _Galvano's Discov._, pp. 148-9; _Oviedo_, _Hist. Gen._, tom. iii. pp. 97-114; _Squier's Nicaragua_, New York, 1860, pp. 157-61. Not long afterward the cities of Granada and Leon were founded, and communication with Nicaragua from the south became of frequent occurrence. In 1522 Pedro de Alvarado occupied Tututepec on the Pacific; while at Zacatula a _villa_ was founded, and a beginning made there on several vessels for exploration northward. _Cortés_, _Cartas_, Letter of May 15, 1522.