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Often appears with: supply, logistics, and encampment · storm-driven voyage · oath of fidelity · mobilization and recruitment · guayaba fruit and local food
Usually: narrative (1) · sudden reversal of fortune (1) · detachment (1)
Garay sails into the region around the river Palmas, is driven north by storms, sends parties ashore, recruits and appoints town officials, crosses rivers and morasses, and reaches Panuco only to find towns deserted and provisionless.
To this Zuazo replied, that he was not at liberty to leave his present abode without permission from his superiors, but that he would follow him as soon as possible. Garay then weighed anchor and sailed in the direction of Panuco. He encountered very boisterous weather at sea, so that he was driven too far north off the mouth of the river Palmas, which he entered with his fleet on the day of Santiago de Compostella.…