[25] Velazquez had instructed his captain to sail round the island of Yucatan. Cortés, in 1519, ordered Escobar to survey this sheet, which was found to be a bay and shallow. Still the pilots and chart-makers wrote it down an island. It is worthy of remark that in the earliest drawings, like Colon’s, in 1527, the maker appears undecided, but Ribero, two years later, boldly severs the peninsula from the continent with a strait. See _Goldschmidt’s Cartog. Pac. Coast_, MS., i. 412-14. The earliest cartographers all write _terminos_, Ribero marking a small stream flowing into the lagoon, _R:. de x p̅ianos_. Here also is the town and point of Jicalango. Ogilby calls the lagoon _Lago de Xicalango_, east of which is the name _N^{ra} S^{ra} de la Vitoria_; Dampier places south of _Laguna Termina_ the town _Chukabul_; Jefferys writes in large letters, a little south of _Laguna de Xicalango_ or _Terminos_, the words _Quehaches Indios Bravos_. Kohl thinks Puerto Escondido may be the Puerto Deseado of Grijalva mentioned by Gomara. [26] Of ‘la isola riccha chiamata Ualor,’ as the chaplain calls it, _Diaz_, _Itinerario_, in _Icazbalceta_, _Col. Doc._, i. 295, ‘descoprir una altra terra che se dice Mulua.’ Alaminos believed New Spain to be another island distinct from Yucatan. The natives called it Coluá, says Las Casas, _Hist. Ind._, iv. 428. [27] On the chart of Cortés, 1520, it is called _R:. de Guzalua_, and placed west instead of east of Rio Santa Ana. Ribero writes, _R:. de grisalua_; Vaz Dourado, _Rº. de grigalua_; Hood, _R. de Grisalua_; _Mercator’s Atlas_, 1574, has a town, _Tausco_; Ogilby, Dampier, and Jefferys employ the name _Tabasco_. Kohl ascribes the name of the river _San Pedro y San Pablo_ to Grijalva. Colon has _R:. de s. pablo_; Ribero, _R. de s:. Pabº_; _Munich Atlas_, No. iv., _rio de s. p._; Baptista Agnese, _rio de S. paulo_; Hood, _R. de S. Pablo_; Ogilby, _S. Paulo_: Dampier, _St. Peter_, _St. Paul_, etc. As there are plenty of streams in that vicinity Herrera gives one to Grijalva and still leaves the chieftain, Tabasco, his own. [28] It is Las Casas who testifies to 6,000; Bernal Diaz enumerates 50 canoes; Herrera speaks of three _Xiquipiles_ of 8,000 men each, standing ready in that vicinity to oppose the Spaniards, waiting only for the word to be given.