[33] Herrera makes the Indian name Papaloava; Bernal Diaz, Papalohuna, Cortés, 1520, and Orontius, 1531, give _R. d alvarado_; Colon, 1527, _R: del comendador aluarado_; Ribero, 1529, _R:. de Aluarado_; Vaz Dourado, 1571, _Rº. de Alluorado_, etc. ‘Die Karte von 1527 hat den _Rio del comendador Alvarado_ etwas weiter westlich, jenseits des Rio de banderas, welches keineswegs mit den Berichten des Bernal Diaz übereinstimmt.’ _Kohl_, _Beiden ältesten Karten_, 106. [34] Some of the early maps place this stream incorrectly east of the Papaloapan; where Ribero writes _P. delgada_, first east from _R: de uanderas_, Vaz Dourado writes _p:. de hiqada_. [35] The Chaplain Diaz affirms that ten days were passed on the mainland, where Indians dressed in mantles brought them food, and where they melted their gold into bars; and that on the San Juan Island they appointed one of the natives cacique, christening him Ovando. ‘El capitaneo li disse che non volevano se non oro et loro resposseno che lo portariano laltro giorno portorono oro fondido in verghe et lo capitaneo li disse che portasseno molto d quello.’ _Itinerario_, in _Icazbalceta_, _Col. Doc._, i. 299. [36] To distinguish it, Herrera says, from San Juan de Puerto Rico. On the chart of Cortés, 1520, the _B:. de Sant Juan_ is laid down, but no other names are given except that of _Sacrificios Island_, which is placed some distance out and called _Yˢ della creficio_. On Orontius’ globe, 1531, three islands are called _Insula Sacrifici_. Colon lays down _R: de s. Juhan_; _R. salado_; _R: de s. x pouae_ (christobal); _villa rica_, and _y^{eo}: de sacreficios_. Ribero designates _R:. de s. Jua_; _R:. de cãpual_; _uilla rica_, and _y:.ª de saćficios_. Vaz Dourado writes _R.º de Säo_ (santo) _Joáo_ (_Juan_); _llaueracrus_ (la vera cruz), and _uilla riqua_ (villa rica). Hood gives _R. de medelin_; _S. Jon delua_; _Laueracruz_; _Sen Jual_; _Villa Rica_; and marks the point south of Vera Cruz _P. de antonisardo_. Mercator gives _Villa Rica_; Ogilby, _S. Juan de Luz_, and north of it _Villarica_. On another of his maps we find _S. Juan de Lua_; _P^{ta} de Antº Sardo_, _I. y Fuerca de la vera Cruz nueva_, _La Vera Cruz_, _R. Medelin_, and _Y^{as} de Sacrificios_. See further _Cartography North Am._, MS., i. 531. Las Casas confounds the islands Sacrificios and Ulua, calling them one. The Spaniards supposed the continent thereabout, far into the interior, was known to the natives as Culhua; hence we find Velazquez, in his instructions to Cortés, _Mendoza_, _Col. Doc._, xii. 227, speaking of ‘una tierra grande, que parte della se llama Ulúa, que puso por nombre Santa María de las Nieves.’ See also _Oviedo_, i. 539. CHAPTER III.