García de Loaisa sailed from Corunna July 24, 1525, to follow Magellan's track. Passing through the strait between January and May, 1526, he arrived at the Moluccas in October. _Viages al Maluco, Segundo el del Comendador Fr. Garcia de Loaisa_, in _Navarrete_, tom. v.; _Burney's Discov. South Sea_, vol. i. pp. 127-45; _Relaciones del viaje hecho á las islas Molucas_, in _Pacheco_ and _Cárdenas_, tom. v. p. 5. [1526.] One small vessel of Loaisa's fleet, under command of Santiago de Guevara, became separated from the rest June 1, 1526, after having reached the Pacific Ocean. Guevara decided to steer for the coast of New Spain, which was first seen in the middle of July; and on the 25th he anchored at Tehuantepec. _Navarrete_, _Col. de Viages_, tom. v. pp. 176-81, 224-5. Cortés' exploring vessels, begun in 1522—the first having been burned on the stocks, others were built in their place—were now, after long delay, nearly ready to sail; and Guevara's vessel was brought up from Tehuantepec to join them. _Cortés_, _Cartas_, Letter of September, 1526. Aillon, in 1523, was made adelantado of Chicora, the country discovered by him in 1520, and immediately prepared a new expedition with a view to colonize the country, explore the coasts, and to find, if possible, a passage to India. The preparations were not completed until July, 1526, when he sailed from Española with six vessels, 500 men, and ninety horses. He reached the Rio Jordan—perhaps St Helena Sound, South Carolina—and thence made a careful exploration northward, at least to Cape Fear, and probably much farther. Aillon died on the 18th of October, and after much internal dissension 150 men, all that remained alive, returned to Santo Domingo. _Navarrete_, _Col. de Viages_, tom. iii. pp. 71-4, 153-60; _Kunstmann_, _Entdeckung Am._, p. 71. Oviedo, _De la Natural hystoria de las Indias_, Toledo, 1526, describes the New World, but this book is not the great historical work, lately printed, by the same author. It may be found also in _Barcia_, _Historiadores Primitivos_, and in _Ramusio_. Sebastian Cabot attempted a voyage to India in 1526, sailing with four vessels in April, with the intention of bearing succor to Loaisa. Owing to insubordination among his officers, and other misfortunes, he reached only the Rio de la Plata, and after extensive explorations in that region, returned to Spain, having been absent four years. _Oviedo_, _Hist. Gen._, tom. ii. p. 169; _Diccionario Universal_, Mexico, apend., 'Viages,' tom. x. p. 807; _Roux de Rochelle_, in _Bulletin de la Soc. Geog._, April, 1832, p. 212.