fatigues and hardship we had to undergo for the space of
two years and three months 238

CHAP. CLXXVI. How Cortes, on our arrival at Ciguatepec, despatches
Francisco de Medina in search of Simon de Cuenca, with orders for
the latter to repair with the two vessels to Triunfo de la Cruz; and
what further happened 245

CHAP. CLXXVII. Cortes' further plans after his arrival among the
Acallan townships; how he orders the powerful cazique of Mexico
Quauhtemoctzin and the king of Tlacupa to be hung; his reasons for
doing this; and of other matters 250

CHAP. CLXXVIII. We continue our march, and what further happened to
us 255

CHAP. CLXXIX. How Cortes entered the town founded by Gil Gonsalez de
Avila; the great joy of the inhabitants at his arrival, and what he
further did there 265

CHAP. CLXXX. How eighty of us, on the second day after our arrival
in Buena Vista, marched out under the command of Luis Marin to
explore the country and to search for provisions 266

CHAP. CLXXXI. 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 269

CHAP. CLXXXII. Sandoval commences to subdue the province of Naco,
and the opposition he meets with from the natives 272

CHAP. CLXXXIII. How Cortes disembarks in the harbour of Truxillo,
and the inhabitants rejoice at his arrival 273

CHAP. CLXXXIV. 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 277

CHAP. CLXXXV. How Cortes receives a letter from the licentiate Zuazo
out of the Havannah, and of its contents 281

CHAP. CLXXXVI. How Pedro Arias de Avila is apprized by two of his
confidants that Francisco Hernandez was in close correspondence with
Co