[40] Kohl thinks Grijalva did not pass Cabo Rojo, the _C:. roxo_ of Vaz Dourado, and Hood, and I am inclined to agree with him. Bernal Diaz says, _Hist. Verdad._, 10, ‘Y esto es ya en la Provincia de Panuco: é yendo por nuestra nauegaciõ llegamos á vn rio grande, que le pusimos por nõbre Rio de Canoas.’ The nomenclature of this stream is quite regular in the several times and places. Cortés gives _Rio Panuco loaton_; Colon, _R: panuco_; Ribero and Vaz Dourado, _panuco_; Orontius, _R. panico_; Hood, _Panuço_; Baptista Agnese, _panucho_, and _rio panucho_; no. vi. _Munich Atlas_ the same; Ptolemy, 1530, in _Munster_, _Panuco_; Mercator, river and town _Panuco_, and next town south _Chila_. And so on with Hondius, Ogilby, Dampier, and the rest. See _Goldschmidt’s Cartog. Pac. Coast_, MS., i. 578. Upon the hypothesis that the San Pedro y San Pablo and the Tuxpan were two streams, the latter may have been the Rio de Canoas of Grijalva and the Pánuco discovered by Montejo and Alaminos the year following, as Kohl surmises, but not otherwise. Herrera says the expedition did not pass Cabo Rojo; Bernal Diaz speaks of a wide projecting cape, which does not exist beyond the Pánuco River. Yet both affirm that the province of Pánuco was reached, and we well know that little would be said to strangers of an aboriginal province by its inhabitants before its great town, or its great river, was approached. Hence the general impression that Grijalva on this occasion coasted as far as Tampico, and that the Pánuco was his Rio de Canoas. It is my opinion that the entrance to the Bahia de Tanguijo, mistaken for a river, was the Rio de Canoas of Grijalva, and that Cabo Rojo was his ultimate point of discovery. [41] Some say sixteen. [42] In questo giorno sul tardi vedessemo miracolo ben grande el qual fu che apparve una stella incima la nave dapoi el tramontar del sole et partisse sempre buttando razi fino che se pose sopra quel vilagio over populo grande et lasso uno razo ne laiere che duro piu de tre hore grande et anchora vedessimo altri signal ben chiari dove comprendessemo che dio volea per suo servitio populassemo la dicta terra. _Itinerario_, in _Icazbalceta_, _Col. Doc._, i. 302.