When he arrived at this isthmus, he laid up his ship and marched inland, guided by Indians.

After traveling twelve leagues among the mountains, he came to a small river running down into the Pacific.
Here he and his comrades built a boat, launched it in the stream, and dropped down into the bay of Panama.

Then he rowed to the Isle of Pearls, and there captured a small barque, from Quito, with sixty pounds of gold.

This raised the spirits of the adventurers, and six days later they took another barque, with a hundred and sixty pounds of silver.

They then set off in quest of pearls.