[5] Though remarkably fair and judicious in the main, Mr Prescott’s partiality for a certain class of his material is evident. To the copies from the Spanish archives, most of which have been since published with hundreds of others equally or more valuable, he seemed to attach an importance proportionate to their cost. Thus, throughout his entire work, these papers are paraded to the exclusion of the more reliable, but more accessible, standard authorities. In the attempt, at this point, to follow at once his document and the plainly current facts, he falls into an error of which he appears unconscious. He states, _Conq. Mex._, i. 222, that Córdoba ‘sailed with three vessels on an expedition to one of the neighboring Bahama Islands, in quest of Indian slaves. He encountered a succession of heavy gales which drove him far out of his course.’ The Bahama Islands are eastward from Habana, while Cape San Antonio is toward the west. All the authorities agree that the expedition sailed directly westward, and that the storm did not occur until after Cape San Antonio had been passed, which leaves Mr Prescott among other errors in that of driving a fleet to the westward, in a storm, when it has already sailed thither by the will of its commander, in fair weather. [6] Following Gomara and Torquemada, Galvano mentions the name of no other place in this voyage than that of Punta de las Dueñas, which he places in latitude 20°. He further remarks, _Descobrimentos_, 131, ‘He gẽte milhor atauiada que ha em neuhũa outra terra, & cruzes em q’ os Indios adorauam, & os punham sobre seus defuntos quando faleciam, donde parecia que em algum tẽpo se sentio aly a fe de Christo.’ The anonymous author of _De Rebus Gestis_ and all the best authorities recognize this as the first discovery. ‘Sicque non ad Guanaxos, quos petebant, appulerunt, sed ad Mulierum promontorium.’ Fernando Colon places on his map, 1527, _y: de mujeres_; Diego de Ribero, 1529, _d’ mugeres_, the next name north being _amazonas_. Vaz Dourado, 1571, lays down three islands which he calls _p:. de magreles_; Hood, 1592, _Y. de mueres_; Laet, 1633, _Y^{as} de mucheres_; Ogilby, 1671, _y^{as} desconocidas_; Dampier, 1699, _I. mugeras_; Jefferys, 1776, _Iª de Mujeres_, or _Woman’s I._ It was this name that led certain of the chroniclers to speak of islands off the coast of Yucatan inhabited by Amazons. ‘Sirvió de asilo en nuestros dias al célebre pirata Lafitte.’ _Boletin de la Sociedad Mex. de Geog._, iii. 224. [7] For a description of these people see _Bancroft’s Native Races_, i. 645-747.