Four ships
and 300 men sailed from Havana on April 8, 1518 under Juan de Grijalva, nephew
of the Cuban governor Velasquez.
Grijalva's expedition,
described in the Itinerario de l'Armata by the chaplain, Juan Díaz,
reached hundreds of miles up the Gulf Coast as far as the Río Panuco
(around Tampico) before returning to Cuba.
In the next year, Cortés followed Grijalva's coastal route as far north as Cempoala.
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[Fig.1: Route of Grijalva's voyage in 1518.]
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