The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo Vol. 2

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1/25/22, 8:50 PM The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo written by himself, containing a true an… Chap. CLXXXI. Chap. CLXXXII. Chap. CLXXXIII. Chap. CLXXXIV. Chap. CLXXXV. Chap. CLXXXVI. Chap. CLXXXVII. Chap. CLXXXVIII. Chap. CLXXXIX. Chap. CXC. Chap. CXCI. Chap. CXCII. How Cortes embarks, with the soldiers who accompanied him on this expedition, and with all the inhabitants of Buena Vista, for Puerto de Caballos, where he founds a colony, to which he gives the name of Natividad Sandoval commences to subdue the province of Naco, and the opposition he meets with from the natives How Cortes disembarks in the harbour of Truxillo, and the inhabitants rejoice at his arrival How Sandoval, during our stay at Naco, takes forty Spanish soldiers with their captain prisoners, who, on their march from the province of Nicaragua, had everywhere plundered and otherwise ill-used the inhabitants How Cortes receives a letter from the licentiate Zuazo out of the Havannah, and of its contents How Pedro Arias de Avila is apprized by two of his confidants that Francisco Hernandez was in close correspondence with Cortes, and about to declare his independence of him; the steps which Arias took upon this How Cortes, after setting sail, was twice obliged to put back into the harbour of Truxillo; and what further happened How Cortes despatches one of his servants, named Martin de Orantes, to Mexico, with letters to Francisco de las Casas and Pedro de Alvarado, in which he empowers them to take upon themselves the chief government of New Spain; but in case they were absent he conferred the same power on Estrada and Albornoz How the treasurer, with several other cavaliers, requested the Franciscan monks to despatch father Diego de Altamirano, a relation of Cortes, to Truxillo, to desire our general to hasten his departure for Mexico Cortes sets sail from the Havannah, and has a favorable passage to Vera Cruz, where he is received with the greatest rejoicings How the licentiate Luis Ponce de Leon, who was commissioned to make inquiries into Cortes' government of New Spain, arrives in the harbour of San Juan de Ulua How the licentiate commences the investigation against Cortes, and all those persons who had filled judicial offices; and how he fell ill shortly after, and died Chap. CXCIII. How, after the death of Ponce de Leon, Marcos de 311 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32475/32475-h/32475-h.htm 6/282 269 272 273 277 281 289 290 292 296 300 303 309 [Pg vii]
1/25/22, 8:50 PM The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo written by himself, containing a true an… Chap. CXCIV. Chap. CXCV. Chap. CXCVI. Chap. CXCVII. Chap. CXCVIII. Chap. CXCIX. Chap. CC. Chap. CCI. Chap. CCII. Chap. CCIII. Chap. CCIV. Chap. CCV. Chap. CCVI. Chap. CCVII. Aguilar assumes the government; the disputes which arose in consequence, and of other matters Marcos de Aguilar dies, and in his will appoints the treasurer Alonso de Estrada governor; and of other matters How Cortes receives letters from the Cardinal de Siguenza, then president of the council of the Indies, and from several other cavaliers, advising him to repair to Spain without delay; the death of his father Martin Cortes; and of other matters How the royal court of audience arrive in Mexico during Cortes' stay in Spain, and what their first occupations were How Nuño de Guzman, on the intelligence that the emperor had cashiered the royal court of audience, determines to subdue the province of Xalisco, at present called New Galicia The arrival of the new members of the royal court of audience in Mexico Cortes returns to New Spain as marquis del Valle Oaxaca, and captain-general of New Spain and of the South Sea, accompanied by his wife Doña Maria de Zuniga, and father Leguizamo and other monks Of the vast expenses to which the marquis Hernando Cortes put himself in fitting out the expeditions to the South Sea, and of their unfortunate termination Of the great festivities which took place in Mexico on account of the peace which was concluded between our emperor and the king of France; and of Cortes' second journey to Spain How the viceroy sends out a squadron of three vessels into the South Sea to the assistance of Francisco Vasquez Coronado, in the conquest of Cibola Of a very extensive armament which was fitted out by Alvarado in the year 1537 What befel the marquis del Valle on his second visit to Spain Of the brave officers and soldiers who sailed from the island of Cuba with the fortunate and spirited captain Hernando Cortes, afterwards marquis del Valle Of the stature and outward person of several brave officers and soldiers, and of their age when they first joined Cortes Of the great merit which is due to us, the true Conquistadores 318 326 336 343 344 348 349 355 357 ib. 363 370 383 387 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32475/32475-h/32475-h.htm 7/282
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