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o in search of wealth, would suffer the abandonment of Florida; and in 1526, Pamphilo de 1526. Narvaez, a man of no great virtue or reputation, obtained from Charles V. the contract to explore and rdeclared an outlaw; and Cortes replied, It is the least of the things I have done in Mexico. Narvaez, who was both rich and covetous, haz- B Diaz C. VI. arded all his treasure on the conquest of up the stream, the boats were separated; but the next afternoon, Cabeza, overtaking and passing Narvaez, who chose to hug the land, struck boldly out to sea in the wake of Castillo, whom he descried Cabeza, that one foundered in the gulf; that the crews of the two others gained the shore; that Narvaez was afterwards driven out to sea; that the stranded men began wandering towards the west; and tves of the former expedition escaped; a Spaniard, who had been kept in slavery from the time of Narvaez, could give no accounts of any country where there was silver or gold. Port. Relation, c. IX