[1523.] Francisco de Garay fitted out a new fleet of eleven vessels, with 850 men, which sailed from Jamaica June 26, 1523. This force was intended for the conquest and settlement of Pánuco, but soon united with the army of Cortés without having accomplished anything of importance. _Navarrete_, _Col. de Viages_, tom. iii. pp. 67-9; _Herrera_, _Hist. Gen._, dec. iii. lib. v. cap. v.-vi.; _Peter Martyr_, dec. vii. cap. v.; _Cortes_, _Carta tercera de Relaciõ_, Seville, 1523. This third letter was written May 15, 1522. Other editions appeared in 1524, and 1532. For the bibliography of Cortés' letters see _Harrisse_, _Bib. Am. Vet._, pp. 215-23. _Maximilian_, _De Molvccis Insulis_, Coloniæ, 1523, is a letter written by the emperor's secretary, describing Magellan's voyage round the world. Other editions are mentioned as having appeared in 1523, 1524, 1534, 1536, and 1537. [1524.] _Apianus_, _Cosmographicus Liber_, Landshutæ, 1524, contains a short chapter on America, which the author describes as an island, because he says it is surrounded by water; furthermore, he affirms this land was named from Vespucci, its discoverer. The map of _Solinus-Camers_, 1520, is repeated in this and in several succeeding editions of the cosmography. _Kunstmann_, _Entdeckung Am._, pp. 134-5. Francis, _De Orbis Sitv ac Descriptione_, Antwerp, 1524, also describes the New World. In 1524 Cortés' fleet at Zacatula was not yet launched, the work having been delayed by fire. The conquest of Colima had however made known a good port, and brought new rumors of rich islands further north. The conqueror's plans were unchanged and his enthusiasm undiminished. His use of the term "la costa abajo," or down the coast, when he meant to sail northward, has sadly confused many writers as to his real intentions, and as to his ideas of the strait. _Cortés_, _Cartas_, Letter of Oct. 15, 1524. In 1524 was made the first official French expedition to the New World. A fleet of four vessels was made ready under Giovanni Verrazano at Dieppe, but three of his ships were separated from him in some inexplicable manner before leaving European waters; and in the remaining one, the _Dauphine_, with fifty men, he sailed on the 17th of January, 1524, from an island near Madeira. After a voyage of forty-nine days, during which time he sailed 900 leagues, Verrazano struck the United States coast in about latitude 34°, perhaps at Cape Fear. Thence he sailed first southward fifty leagues, then turning about he followed the coast northward, frequently touching, to Newfoundland, whence he returned to Dieppe in July, 1524. Verrazano in his journal mentions only one date, and names but one locality; consequently there is much difference of opinion concerning his landings.