History of Mexico, Volume 1, 1516-1521Bancroft, Hubert Howe
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History of Mexico, Volume 1, 1516-1521
Bancroft, Hubert Howe
Mexico -- History
[92] Pedro Juarez Gallinato de Porra was sent with a
caravel under orders to take the cargo of supplies to Cabo
Corrientes or Punta de Santanton, and there await the fleet.
_Gomara_, _Hist. Mex._, 13. In _De Rebus Gestis Ferdinandi
Cortesii_, loc. cit., the captain is called Pedro Gonzalez
de Trujillo. He brings 1500 tocinas (salt pork), and 2000
loads cassava. ‘Mil cargas de pan cazavi, y dos mil tocinos
y muchos fasoles y aves y otras cosas.’ _Cortés_, _Memorial_,
1542, in _Id._, _Escritos Sueltos_, 311.
[93] Bernal Diaz, _Hist. Verdad._, 14, mentions several
more names, with occasional remarks on wealth and standing.
Puertocarrero is also written Puerto Carrero, and in the
modern form of Portocarrero. _Torquemada_ and _Oviedo_,
passim.
[94] This appears to be the same vessel referred to by Gomara
as Alonso Guillen’s, bought at Trinidad, though nothing is
of course said about the mode of payment. _Hist. Mex._, 13.
Prescott mistakes in making Sedeño the master of this vessel.
[95] Ordaz proceeded on his mission in the caravel _El
Guerho_, and returned to Trinidad in the vessel of Sedeño,
who received two thousand and more castellanos in gold
fringes, the only treasure on hand. _Cortés_, _Memorial_,
1542, in _Id._, _Escritos Sueltos_, 312. ‘Quatro mil
arrouas de pan, mil y quinientos toçinos y muchas gallinas.’
_Gomara_, _Hist. Mex._, 14. Bernal Diaz intimates that Sedeño
came into port of his own accord, and was induced to sell
ships and cargo. _Hist. Verdad._, 14. He was reputed the
richest man in the party. _Id._; _Las Casas_, _Hist. Ind._,
ii. 455-6; _Herrera_, dec. ii. lib. iii. cap. xii. ‘De una
hacienda de V. M. compró al mayordomo de ella quinientas
é tantas cargas (pan)’. _Cortés_, _Memorial_, 1542, loc.
cit. The _Probanza de Lejalde_, in _Icazbalceta_, _Col.
Doc._, i. 411, contains interesting testimony as to what
goods were obtained, and how.
[96] The Habana was then situated on the south side of the
island, not on the north side, where the appellation now
obtains. Prescott and others fall into numerous blunders
by supposing the Habana of to-day to be identical with the
Habana of three hundred years ago, sending a whole fleet
far out of its way for no other purpose than to collect
provisions, which one vessel would accomplish as well.
[97] ‘Començó Cortés â poner casa, y â tratarse como señor:
y el primer Maestresala q̄ tuvo, fue vn Guzmã que luego se
muriò, ò mataron Indios.’ A different man from the later
mayordomo, Cristóbal de Guzman, who captured Quauhtemotzin
during the siege of Mexico. ‘Caceres ... fue despues de
ganado Mexico, hombre rico.’ _Bernal Diaz_, _Hist. Verdad._,
15-16.
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