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The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2): Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. — John Shaqi

The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2): Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain.Díaz del Castillo, Bernal

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The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2): Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain.

Name: The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2): Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain.
Author: Díaz del Castillo, Bernal

Díaz del Castillo, Bernal

Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540

CHAP. CLXXV. How we commence our march from Guacasualco, and the
    terrible 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
    Cortes, and about to declare his independence of him; the steps
    which Arias took upon this                                         289

    CHAP. CLXXXVII. How Cortes, after setting sail, was twice obliged to
    put back into the harbour of Truxillo; and what further happened   290

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