Thirty  leagues  further,  he  came  to  another  river,  called  Zarcarana,  and
finding  the  nalivea  there  a  tational  vrell-disposed  people,  he  built  andber
fint,  calling  it  "  Santus  Spiritus,"  or,  of  the  Holy  ^irit,  but  his  followen
named  it  Cabot's  Fort.
From  thence  he  could  discern  tlie  shores  of  the  Parana  or  Plate,  and.
keeping  along  its  course,  discovered  many  islands  snd  rivers,  till,  at  the  end
of  two  hundred  leagues,  he  came  to  the  river  which  the  Indiana  cdled
Paraguay :  and  running  up  it  lliirty-four  leagues,  he  found  people  tilling
the  (i^romMl,  which,  in  that  part  of  the  world,  h«  had  not  net  widi
before.  >


51  NAVAL  HIITOBY  OF  GREAT  JNIITAIIf.
^«re  the  Indianst  howefer,  opposed  his  futher  piqgiess ;  and  after
Hilling  many  of  them,  and  losing  twenty-eight  of  his  Spaniards,  (twenty*
five  of  whom  were  slain»  and  the  other  three  taken  prisoners  by  the  In-
dians, while  they  were  gathering  palmetos  to  eal)  Cabot  was  oooneUed
to  return  to  his  fort*

In  the  springof  tiie  year,  IdSU  Cabot  returned  to  Spain*  after  haxii^
spent  five  years  in  America,  but  was  coldly  received,  having  '^^—pp^T'tfiri
his  onployers  in  not  sailing  to  the  Blduccas  or  Spice  Islands,  and  havipg
raised  himself  many  enemies,  by  his  severity  to  the  Spanbh  mutineafs»
This  reception  seems  to  have  influenced  his  departure  to  En^nd»  which
is  supposed  to  have  occurred  about  the  twenty-fourth  year  of  King  Hevjr
Vin.  when  he  settled  at  Bristol.
