See ponce de Leon.
"History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)"
E. Benjamin Andrews
She was ordered to cut the cables at Santiago and Guantanamo Bay, and afterwards at ponce, Puerto Rico.
"Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles"
Alfred T. Mahan
It appears on an old Spanish map dated 1502. Following the expedition of ponce de Leon, in 1513, and of Murielo, in 1516, Narvaez headed an expedition from Cuba in 1528 with some three hundred freebooters.
"Cuba, Old and New"
Albert Gardner Robinson