ABSTRACT
IT so happened that the Portuguese had taken possession or an island adjoining the mainland called Sancte Vincente, which is known in the savage tongue as Urbioneme. This province lies some seventy miles from the place to which we had come, and our resolution was to sail there and find out if we could freight a ship from the Portuguese in which to continue the voyage to Rio de Plata, since a ship such as we had was too small to carry all of us. Certain of the company sailed accordingly for the island of Sancte Vincente with the Captain Salaser whom I have already named, but no one of us had ever been there before except a man called Roman who thought he could find the place again.
