Note XVI-4 — Chapter XVI · THE WARS OF THE SPANIARDS. 1523-1524.
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'El mal tiempo echo a la mar algunos de los cavallos que llevava, de donde le quedó el nombre.' Herrera, dec. iii. lib. v. cap. xii. Oviedo mentions the death of a horse which was buried with great secrecy, lest the natives should learn they were mortal. Fernando Colon, in 1527, writes a: de cauallos; Ribero, in 1529, C∴ de cauallos; Vaz Dourado, 1571, p∴ de caualos, with the name triqueste next west; De Laet, 1633, Po de Cavallos; Ogilby, 1671, Pta d. Cavallos; Jefferys, 1776, Pto Cavallos; and to-day as in the text.