The first fifty-seven pages of the fourteenth volume of the _Documentos inéditos_ are taken up with the affairs of Gil Gonzalez Dávila. The first is an _asiénto_ with the pilot Niño, by which he was given permission to discover and explore for one thousand leagues to the westward from Panamá. Gil Gonzalez was to go in command of the fleet,[720] composed of the vessels built by Vasco Nuñez, which Pedrárias was ordered to deliver to the new adventurers, but which he refused to do until Gil Gonzalez made the demand in person.[721] A full statement of the equipments and cost of fitting out the fleet in Spain is given in _Documentos inéditos_ (vol. xiv. pp. 8-20), and is exceedingly interesting as showing what the Spaniards thought essential to the outfit of an exploring expedition. What was actually accomplished in the way of sailing, marching, and baptizing is fully set forth in _Relacion de las leguas que el capitan Gil Gonzalez Dávila anduvo á pié por tierra por la costa de la mar del Sur, y de los caciques y indios que descubrió y se babtizaron, y del oro que dieron para Sus Magestades_ (1522).[722] The latter part of the career of Gil Gonzalez is described in the _Informacion sobre la llegada de Gil Gonzalez Dávila y Cristóbal de Olid á las Higueras_ (Oct. 8, 1524)[723] and in the succeeding documents, especially a _Traslado testimoniado de una cédula del Emperador Carlos V.... entre los capitanes Gil Gonzalez Dávila y Cristóbal Dolid_ (Nov. 20, 1525).[724] The _Relacion_ of Andagoya[725] contains a narrative of the expedition from a different point of view. Besides these papers, Bancroft found a document in the Squier Collection,[726] which he cites as _Carta de Gil Gonzalez Dávila el Rey_ (March, 1524). This letter contains a great deal of detailed information, of which Bancroft has made good use in his account of that adventurer.[727] * * * * * There is no documentary evidence with regard to the settlement of Jamaica by Juan de Esquivel, or of the circumnavigation of Cuba by Sebastian de Ocampo; and there are but slight allusions to them in the “chroniclers.”[728] There is not much to be found concerning the settlement of Cuba, except the accounts given by the early chroniclers. I should place Oviedo (vol. i. p. 494) first, although he got his knowledge second hand from the account given by Las Casas; while the story of this actual observer is necessarily tinged by the peculiar views—peculiar for the nation and epoch—which he held in later life with regard to the enslavement of the natives.[729] With the voyage of Córdoba to Yucatan, Navarrete[730] again becomes useful, although he printed no new evidence. The voyage, therefore, rests upon the accounts given in the standard books,[731] upon the _Historia verdadera_ of Bernal Diaz, the _Vida de Cortés_ in Icazbalceta (i. 338), and a few documents recently dragged from the recesses of the Indian Archives.