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La primera de estas hipótesis que, como decíamos, se ha convertido en parte de la tradición histórica del manuscrito, se halla por primera vez en la obra de Samuel Purchas (1625, 3:1065-1066), quien presentaba el Mendocino en el contexto de su enciclopedia de exploración Hakluytus Posthumus: or, Purchas His Pilgrimes, presentada en 1625 de la siguiente manera:

Reader, I here present unto thee the choicest of my Jewels. … Such an one we here present, a present thought fit for him whom the senders esteemed the greatest of Princes, and yet now presented to thy hands before it could arrive in his presence. For the Spanish Governour having with some difficultie (as the Spanish preface imports) obtained the Booke of the Indians with mexican interpretations of the Pictures (but ten daies before the departre of the Ships) committed to the same to one skillful in the mexican language to be interpreted … this Historie thus written, sent to Charles the fifth Emperour, was together with the Shippe that carried it taken by Frenchmen of war, from whom Andrew Thevet, the French King”s Geographer, obtained the same: after whose death Master Hakluyt (then Chaplaine to the English Embassadour in France) bought the same for 20. French crownes”.11