19 (Return)
Letters, p. 61.
20 (Return)
Bernal Diaz, vol. i. p. 179.
21 (Return)
Vol. i. p. 144.
22 (Return)
Collección de Léyes, 1853, p. 184.
23 (Return)
Lord Kingsborough, vol. vi. p. 265.
24 (Return)
A Year in Spain, by an American.
25 (Return)
Bernal Diaz, vol. i. p. 207.
26 (Return)
Collección de Léyes, p. 180.
27 (Return) > "The whole Pacific coast produces pearls, but the most extensive pearl-fisheries, at the present time, are in the Gulf of California, where, among an inexhaustible supply of little pearls, there are produced some of the very finest quality. The pearls of the Countess de Regla, those of the Marquesa de Gudalupe, and Madame Velasco, are from these fisheries, and are remarkable for their great size and value. The great pearl presented to General Victoria, while he was President, was from the same locality." (Ward,