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Frontmatter
BOOK XIV. THE EXPEDITION TO HONDURAS.
CHAPTER CLXXIV. How Hernando Cortés set out from Mexico on the road to Las Higueras in search of Cristóbal de Olid and Francisco de Las Casas and the other Captains, soldiers, and gentlemen whom he had sent there; and what Captains he took from Mexico to accompany him, and about the material and retinue he took with him as far as the town of Coatzacoalcos, and other things that happened
CHAPTER CLXXV. What Cortés arranged after the Factor and Veedor returned to Mexico, and about the hardships we endured on our long journey, and about the great bridges we made and the hunger we suffered during the two years and three months that we spent on the journey
CHAPTER CLXXVI. How we had arrived at the town of Ciguatepecad and how he [Cortés] sent Francisco de Medina to meet Simon de Cuenca and proceed with the two vessels already mentioned by me to Triunfo de la Cruz or to the Golfo Dulce, and what else happened
CHAPTER CLXXVII. What Cortés attended to after reaching Acalá, and how, in another pueblo further ahead, subject to this same Acalá, he ordered Guatemoc the Great Cacique of Mexico, and another Cacique, the lord of Tacuba, to be hanged, and the reason why he did it, and other things that happened
CHAPTER CLXXVIII. How we went on our way, and what happened to us
CHAPTER CLXXIX. How Cortés entered the town where the followers of Gil Gonzales de Avila were settled, and about the great joy shown by all the inhabitants, and what Cortés decreed
CHAPTER CLXXX. How the day after arriving at that town, which I know by no other name than that of San Gil de Buena Vista, we set out with Captain Luis Marin and nearly eighty soldiers, all on foot, to search for maize and explore the country, and what happened I will go on to relate
CHAPTER CLXXXI. How Cortés embarked with all the soldiers, both those which he had brought in his company and those who had remained at San Gil de Buena Vista, and went to settle the place now called Puerto de Caballos, which he named La Natividad, and what he did there
CHAPTER CLXXXII. How the Captain Goozalo de Sandoval began the pacification of that Province of Naco, and what else he did
CHAPTER CLXXXIII. How Cortés disembarked at the Port of Trujillo, and how all the settlers at that town came out to receive him, and how content they were with him, and what he did there
CHAPTER CLXXXIV. How Captain Gonzalo de Sandoval, who was at Naco, captured forty Spanish soldiers and their Captain, who had come from the province of Nicaragua, and did much damage and robbed the Indians of the pueblos through which they passed
CHAPTER CLXXXV. How the Licentiate Zuazo sent a letter to Cortés from the Havana, and what was contained in it I will now relate
CHAPTER CLXXXVI. How certain friends of Pedrarias de Ávila went post haste from Nicaragua to inform him that Francisco Herndndez, whom he had sent as Captain to Nicaragua, was in correspondence by letter with Cortés, and had revolted with the provinces, and what Pedrarias did about it
CHAPTER CLXXXVII. How Cortés, going by sea in the direction of Mexico, met with a hurricane, and twice turned back to the port of Trujillo, and what happened to him there
CHAPTER CLXXXVIII. How Cortés sent a Ship to New Spain, with a follower of his named Martin de Orantes as Captain, with letters and decrees appointing Francisco de las Casas and Pedro de Alvarado as Governors if they were there, and if not then Alonzo de Estrada and Albornoz
CHAPTER CLXXXIX. How the Treasurer and many other gentlemen prayed the Franciscan Friars to send one Fray Diego Altamirano, a relation of Cortés, in a ship to Trujillo to make him [Cortés] return, and what happened about it
BOOK XV. THE RETURN TO MEXICO.
CHAPTER CXC. How Cortés embarked at Havana to go to New Spain and with favourable weather arrived at Vera Cruz, and the delight shown by all at his coming
CHAPTER CXCI. How the Licentiate Luis Ponce de Leon, who came to take the 'Residencia' of Cortés, arrived at this very moment at the port of Vera Cruz with three ships, and what happened about it
CHAPTER CXCII. How the Licentiate Luis Ponce, after he had exhibited the Royal Decrees and met with obedience, ordered the Residencia of Cortés and those who had held judicial office to be proclaimed, and how he fell ill of sleeping sickness and died of it, and what else happened
CHAPTER CXCIII. How, after the death of the Licentiate Luis Ponce de Leon, the Licentiate Marcos de Aguilar began to govern, and the disputes that arose about it; and how Captain Luis Marin and all those of us who were in his company chanced to meet Pedro de Alvarado who was marching in search of Cortés, and how both parties rejoiced, because the country was hostile and could not be traversed without great danger
CHAPTER CXCIV. How Marcos de Aguilar died, and by his will appointed the Treasurer Alonzo de Estrada as Governor (but he was not to give judgment in the suits of the Factor or Veedor, nor to grant or take away Indians, until His Majesty should ordain what was most to his advantage), in the same way as Luis Ponce had delegated his authority to him
CHAPTER CXCV. How letters came to Cortés from Spain from Don Garcia de Loaysa, Cardinal of Siguenza, who was President of the [Council of] the Indies and soon afterwards Archbishop of Seville, and from other gentlemen, [advising him] in any case to come at once to Castile, and they brought the news that his father Martin Cortés was dead, and what he did about it
BOOK XVI. THE RULE OF THE AUDIENCIA.
CHAPTER CXCVI. How during the time Cortés was in Castile with the title of Marquis, the Royal Audiencia came to Mexico, and with what is was busied
CHAPTER CXCVII. How Nuño de Guzman, [when he] learned from letters which came to him from Castile that His Majesty had ordered him to be deprived of the Presidency, and the Oidores [to be dismissed], and that others would come in their places, decided to go and bring to peace and conquer the province of Jalisco which is now called New Galicia
CHAPTER CXCVIII. How the Royal Audiencia arrived at Mexico, and what it very justly accomplished
CHAPTER CXCIX. How Don Hernando Cortés, Marques del Valle, came from Spain, married to the Señora Doña Juana de Zuñiga, and with the title of Marques del Valle and Captain General of New Spain and of the South Sea, and about the reception given to him
CHAPTER CC. Of the expendituire which the Marquis Don Hernando Cortés incurred for the fleets which he sent on voyages of discovery, and how he had no good luck at all
CHAPTER CCI. How great festivities and banquets were celebrated in Mexico and what rejoicing [took place] at the peace [made] between the Most Christian Emperor our Lord of Glorious Memory, and Don Francisco the King of France, when they met at Aguas Muertas
CHAPTER CCII. How the Viceroy Don Antonio de Mendoza sent three ships to explore the South Coast in search of Francisco Vasquez Coronado and sent him provisions and soldiers, supposing that he was engaged in the conquest of Cibola
CHAPTER CCIII. About a fleet which the Adelantado Don Pedro de Alvarado fitted out from a port called Acajutla in the province of Guatemala
CHAPTER CCIV. What the Marquis did when he was in Castile
BOOK XVII. THE RECORD OF THE CONQUISTADORES.
CHAPTER CCV. A Record of the gallant Captains and stout and valiant soldiers who left the Island of Cuba with the daring and courageous Captain Don Hernando Cortés, who after conquering Mexico became Marquis del Valle and had other titles
CHAPTER CCVI. About the stature and shape of certain of the Captains and brave soldiers and the age they had attained when we came to conquer New Spain
CHAPTER CCVII. About the matters dealt with herein, concerning the merits which we the true conquistadores possess, which will be pleasant to hear
CHAPTER CCVIII. How the Indians throughout New Spain practised many sacrifices and vices, and [how] we did away with these and instructed them in the holy matters of good doctrine
CHAPTER CCIX. How we impressed very good and holy doctrines on the Indians of New Spain, and about their conversion, and how they were baptised and turned to our holy faith, and how we taught them the Offices in use in Castile, and to comprehend and secure justice
CHAPTER CCX. About other matters and advantages which have followed from our renowned conquests and labours
CHAPTER CCXI. How in the year IVVI [1550] when the Court was at Valladolid there met together in the Royal Council of the Indies certain prelates and gentlemen who came from New Spain and Peru as Proctors, and other noblemen who were present, in order to give the order that the Assignment [of Indians or Pueblos] should be in perpetuity, and what was said and done at the meeting is what I shall relate
CHAPTER CCXII. About other discussions and stories which are here made known and will be pleasant to hear
CHAPTER CCXIII. Why many Indian men and women were branded as slaves in New Spain, and the story I tell about it
CHAPTER CCXIV. About the Governors who have been in New Spain up to the year fifteen hundred and sixty-eight
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
FIFTH LETTER OF HERNANDO CORTÉS TO THE EMPEROR CHARLES V
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