...Mexico up the west coast to Sinaloa. His northern limit was the Yaqui River in about latitude 28°; arid branches of his expedition also crossed the mountains...1536, there arrived at San Miguel de Culiacan Alvar Nuiiez and three companions, survivors of Narvaez' expedition of 1528, who had wandered across the...

...and certainly in editions of 1519, 1521, 1525, and 1526 in Spanish, mentioned an island of California "on the right hand of the Indies, very near the Terrestrial Paradise," peopled with black women, griffins, and other creatures of the author's imagination.6 There is no direct...

...popular among the adventurers of the time of Cortes, and in which was mentioned an island of California "on the right hand of the Indies, very near the terrestrial paradise." There is no evidence respecting the circumstances under which the name was given, nor is any likely...

...Ordoftez de Montalva, published about the year 1510. The romance referred to an island of California on the right hand of the Indies very near the Terrestrial Paradise. The name was first applied to an island or the peninsula of California, which was at first thought...

...and certainly in editions of 1519, 1521, 1525, and 1526 in Spanish, mentioned an island of California "on the right hand of the Indies, very near the Terrestrial Paradise," peopled with black women, griffins, and other creatures of the author's imagination/' There is no direct...

...and certainly in editions of 1519, 1521, 1525, and 1526 in Spanish, mentioned an island of California "on the right hand of the Indies, very near the Terrestrial Paradise," peopled with black women, griffins, and other creatures of the author's imagination/ There is no direct...

...perhaps in 1510, and certainly in editions of 1519, 1521, and 1526, mentioned an Island of California on the right hand of the Indies, very near the terrestrial Paradise," peopled with black women, griffins, and other creatures of the author's imagination. It is pointed...

...de Montalva in 1510 published a Spanish romance wherein he referred to the " island of California, on the right hand of the Indies, very near the Terrestrial Paradise." AVhen Cortez conquered Mexico, his annalist, Bernal Diaz del Castillo, gave this name, it is said in...

...de Montalva in 1510 published a Spanish romance wherein he referred to the " island of California, on the right hand of the Indies, very near the Terrestrial Paradise." When Cortez conquered Mexico, his annalist, Bernal Diaz del Castillo, gave this name, it is said in...

...time, entitled Sergas de Esplandian, in which an island named California was mentioned and situated " on the right hand of the Indies, very near the terrestrial paradise." The name must have been given derisively, as the barren coasts of Lower California could not have suggested...