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Elena Pellús Pérez - RUA - Universidad de Alicante

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amittit. Ioannes Guetaria fortiter dimicans occumbit,<br />

uulnerati sunt przeterea Hispanorum plerique. Grijalua,<br />

conscientia rei male gesta; affectus, uiris rebusque ómnibus<br />

in ñaues impositis, uela occasum uersus facit.<br />

Ad Tabascum flumen, quod ex suo nomine Grijaluam<br />

dixit, paucis post diebus applicat. Ibi concionem<br />

consiliumque primorum Hispanorum et nauclerorum in<br />

nauem cogit, Petrum Aluaradum omnium sententia nuncius 44<br />

cladis accepta; nauigationisque acta; ad Uelazquium patruum<br />

mittit. Ipse interim, dum ille re<strong>de</strong>at, plura loca inuestigaturus.<br />

Uelazquius, hoc tristi nuncio accepto, dixisse fertur: "Haud<br />

qui<strong>de</strong>m aliud me sperare a fatuo illo oportebat, mérito<br />

pamas luo impru<strong>de</strong>ntia; mea; qui illum miserim". Iam tune<br />

Didacus cum Aluaradus uenit, Christophorum Olitum cum<br />

paruo nauigio ad Grijaluam miserat, ut in quo statu res esset<br />

cognosceret.<br />

Ca;terum, Uelazquius, quem omnia experiri cogebat<br />

necessitas, quippe cuius primas spes fortuna <strong>de</strong>stituere<br />

ui<strong>de</strong>batur, animaduertens eas tantas cla<strong>de</strong>s temeritate<br />

negligentiaue aut inscitia Grijalua; ac Corduba;, ducum 45<br />

accidisse Ferdinandum Cortesium, qui nuper domum<br />

redierat, conuenit. Aberat enim Cortesius cum Aluaradus<br />

nuncium <strong>de</strong> aduersa pugna tulerat. Consilium <strong>de</strong> ratione belli<br />

<strong>de</strong>que paranda classe cum eo communicat, multa interim <strong>de</strong><br />

amicitia commemorans.<br />

Neminem, inquit, in tota Ínsula esse cui libentius eam<br />

prouinciam, uirtuti prístina; haud diffisus, committeret,<br />

ñeque item esse qui melius possit <strong>de</strong>beatque, modo uelit, ad<br />

eam expeditionem operam polliceri, tum propter facultatem,<br />

148<br />

44 "nuncium"en la edición <strong>de</strong> Joaquín García Icazbalceta.<br />

45 ducem.

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