24. Peter Martyr de Angheria relates that "Cabot ran along the coast of the land of Baccalaos;" and it is to be remarked that entire credence must be given to this author, both because of his reputaton, erudition, and carefulness, and because when he was councillor of the Indies, or appointed to attend to their business, he was able to secure, at the time of writing his Decades, the most reliable information, since he dealt constantly with the discoverers, particularly with Cabot, with whom he was in very close communication. This resulted from the circumstance that the King of Spain, in the month of September, 1512, hearing from some cosmographers that there was a strait in the region of the land of Baccalaos, wrote to Lord Willoughby,* [Arredondo note * Cardenas, in his Introduction to the Ensayo Cronoldgico, parrafo 15°.] captain-general of England, to send Cabot to him, which he did at once, as though it mattered very little to Willoughby. On Cabot's arrival in Spain he was made captain, with his residence in Seville. For this reason it must be believed that Cabot, needing the patronage of Angheria to advance his fortunes, showed him the chart and the diary of his voyage.