[11] Pinzon and Solis must have found alligators in their northward cruise, otherwise Peter Martyr could not honestly lay down on his map of _India beyond the Ganges_, in 1510, the _baya d’ lagartos_ north of _guanase_. Mariners must have given the coast a bad name, for directly north of the _R. de la_ of Colon, the _R:. de laḡ r̄ tos_ of Ribero, the _R:. de lagarts_ of Vaz Dourado, and the _R. de Lagartos_ of Hood, are placed some reefs by all these chart-makers, and to which they give the name _Alacranes_, Scorpions. The next name west of Lagartos on Map No. x., _Munich Atlas_, is _costanisa_, and on No. xiii. _Ostanca_. Again next west, on both, is _Medanos_. On No. x., next to _costa nisa_, and on No. xiii., west of _Punta de las Arenas_, is the name _Ancones_. Ogilby gives here _B. de Conil_, and in the interior south, a town _Conil_; east of _R. de Lagartos_ is also the town _Quyo_, and in large letters the name _Chuaca_. [12] ‘Dezian los Españoles q’ estavan hablãdo con el Diego Velazquez, y con los Indios: Señor estos Indios dizen, que su tierra se llama Yucatã, y assi se, quedò cõ este nõbre, que en propria lengua no se dize assi.’ _Hist. Verdad._, 5. Gomara, _Hist. Ind._, 60, states that after naming Catoche, a little farther on the Spaniards met some natives, of whom they asked the name of the town near by. Tecteta, was the reply, which means, ‘I do not understand.’ The Spaniards, accepting this as the answer to their question, called the country Yectetan, and soon Yucatan. Waldeck, _Voy. Pittoresque_, 25, derives the name from the native word _ouyouckutan_, ‘listen to what they say.’ The native name was Maya. See _Bancroft’s Native Races_, v. 614-34. There are various other theories and renderings, among them the following: In answer to Córdoba’s inquiry as to the name of their country, the natives exclaimed, ‘_uy u tan_, esto es: _oyes como habla_?’ _Zamacois_, _Hist. Mej._, ii. 228. ‘Que preguntando a estos Indios, si auia en su tierra aquellas rayzes que se llama Yuca.... Respondian Ilatli, por la tierra en que se plantan, y que de Yuca juntado con Ilatli, se dixo Yucatta, y de alli Yucatan.’ _Herrera_, dec. ii. lib. ii. cap. xviii. Whencesoever the origin, it was clearly a mistake, as there never was an aboriginal designation for the whole country, nor, like the Japanese, have they names for their straits or bays. For some time Yucatan was supposed to be an island. Grijalva called the country _Isla de Santa María de Remedios_, though that term was employed by few. In early documents the two names are united; instance the instructions of Velazquez to Cortés, where the country is called _la Ysla de Yucatan Sta María de Remedios_. On Cortés’ chart of the Gulf of Mexico, 1520, it