[203] Letter from the island of Española.—_Vide_ Select letters of Christopher Columbus, with other original documents relating to his four voyages to the New World. Translated and edited by R. H. Major. London, 1870. Second edition. Hakluyt Society pub. [204] Historie del S. D. Fernando Colombo. cap. lxv-lxxiii. [205] Historie del S. D. Fernando Colombo. cap. lxxiv-lxxxvii. [206] Lettera di Amerigo Vespucci. Secundo viaggio.—_Vide_ Historie del S. D. Fernando Colombo. cap. lxxxiv. Coleccion de los viages y descubrimientos. Navarrete. tom. iii. pp. 4-9; 543-545. In December, 1499, Vincente Yañez Pinzon sailed from Palos, and came in sight of the coast of Brazil at a point of land which he called Cabo Santa Maria de la Consolacion. The same month Diego de Lepe sailed from Palos and made discoveries south of this cape. Rodrigo de Bastidas sailed from Cadiz in October, 1500, and explored the coast of Paria westward to the isthmus of Darien. [207] Nueva España (New Spain), was the name which the Spaniards gave to Yucatan and Mexico when they first explored these countries. [208] Mar del Sur, the early Spanish name for the Pacific Ocean. [209] Historie del S. D. Fernando Colombo. cap. lxxxviii-xc. [210] Historie del S. D. Fernando Colombo. cap. xcii. [211] Historie del S. D. Fernando Colombo. cap. xciv-xcvi. [212] _Vide_ Select letters of Christopher Columbus. Major. [213] Columbus, in his letter to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, from Jamaica, dated July 7, 1503, says: “This is the account I have to give of my voyage. The men who accompanied me were a hundred and fifty in number, among whom were many considered to be pilots and good sailors, but none of them can explain whither I went nor whence I came. The explanation is simply this: I sailed from a point above the port of Brazil, and while I was in Española, a storm prevented me from following my intended route, for I was compelled to go wherever the wind drove me. At the same time I became very sick, and there was no one who had sailed in these parts before. However, after some days the wind and sea became tranquil, but there were rapid currents. I put into a harbor at the island called Isla de las Bocas, and afterward steered for Tierra-firme. However, it is impossible to give a correct account of all our movements, for I was carried away by the current for many days without seeing land.