On Colon’s map the name is given in capital letters, _Nova Spaña_. Under _Nveva España_ Ribero writes _dixose asì por que ay aquy muchas cosas que ay en españa ay ya mucho trigo q̄ an lleuado de aca entanta cantidad q̄ lo pueden encargar para otras partes ay aquy mucho oro de nacimiento_. Robert Thorne, in _Hakluyt’s Voy._, carries _Hispania Noua_ east and west through Central America, while Ramusio, _Viaggi_, iii. 455, places _La Nova Spagna_ in large letters across the continent. [23] It is remarkable, as I have often observed, how two eye-witnesses can sometimes tell such diametrically opposite stories; not only in regard to time and minor incidents, but to place and prominent events. In this instance Diaz the priest is no less positive and minute in placing the affair at Campeche, than is Diaz the soldier, at Champoton. The second-rate authorities, following these two writers who were present, are divided, by far the greater number, Herrera among the rest, accepting the statement of Bernal Diaz. Oviedo, who was a resident of the Indies at the time, describes the battle as occurring at Campeche. Perhaps one reason why the soldier-scribe has more adherents than the priest, is because the existence of the narrative of the latter was not so well known. Las Casas affirms, _Hist. Ind._, iv. 425, that the pilot unintentionally passed Lázaro’s port, or Campeche, and landed and fought at Champoton. ‘Llegaron, pues, al dicho pueblo (que, como dije, creo que fué Champoton, y no el de Lázaro).’ [24] Puerto Escondido. On the maps of Colon and Hood it is placed as one of the eastern entrances of the Laguna de Términos, the former writing _p. deseado_, and the latter _P. desiado_; Gomara places the _Laguna de Términos_ between Puerto Deseado and Rio Grijalva. On Ribero’s map, north of Escondido, _isla ger_, Vaz Dourado marking in the same locality _p:. seqº amgratriste_, Dampier gives _Boca Eschondido_, and Jefferys, _Boca Escondida_.