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Excerpt from History of Oregon Territory: It Being a Demonstration of the Title of These United States of North America to the Same Forty years after the discovery of the Western Continent, Hernan Cortez, the conqueror of Mexico, having explored the neighboring countries, in search of rich nations to plunder, turned his attention to the north and northwest. At the commencement of the sixteenth century, the most northern settlements of the Spaniards in North America, were Culiacan, a small establishment on the eastern side of the Gulf of California, in about twenty-five degrees north latitude, and Panuco, situated near the spot now occupied by Tampieo, on the Mexican Gulf. Of this expedition, made under the direction and orders of Cortez, little authentic is known. In 1532, Diego Hurtade de Mendoza, a relation of Cortez, sailed from Acapulco in a small ship, accompanied by Juan de Mazuela, in command of another vessel. They proceeded along the southwest coast of Mexico, as far as the twenty-seventh degree of north latitude. Here a tempest separated them, and the vessel commanded by Mendoza was lost. After the storm abated, Mazuela was obliged to return to the river Culiaean, where the greater part of his crew deserted. Those who remained endeavoring to bring the ship back to Acapulco, ran her ashore in the province of Jalisco. There the crew, excepting three, were murdered by the savages; and subsequently the vessel was rifled by Nuno de Guzman, the chief of a band of adventurers, who pretended to be independent of Cortez. The next year, as no news of these vessels had reached Acapulco, Cortez sent out two others in the same direction, under Hernando de Grijalva and Diego de Becerra, who set sail from Tehuantepee in October, 1533. Grijalva, separating from his companions, sailed to the westward, and having discovered a group of small islands about one hundred and fifty miles from the main land, (now known as the Revillagigedo lslands, ) he returned to Mexico without making any further discovery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.