Note 857 — Chapter IV
Reading edition
The best account of this affair is a “Relacion de la Florida para el Illmo Señor Visorrei de la Na España la qual trajo Fray Grego de Beteta,” in Smith’s Coleccion, pp. 190-202. The first part is by Cancer himself, the conclusion by Beteta. There are also extant “Requirimentos y respuestas que pasaron en la Nao Sa Maria de la Encina,” and the Minutes of discussions between the missionaries, and the Captain’s order to his pilot and sailors. There is a somewhat detailed sketch of Cancer’s life in Davila Padilla’s Historia de la fundacion de la Provincia de Santiago de México, 1596, chapters liv.-lvii., and a brief notice in Touron, Histoire de l’Amérique, vi. 81. Cf. Herrera, dec. viii. lib. 5, p. 112; Gomara, c. xlv.; Barcia, Ensaio cronológico, pp. 25-26.