thë he conferred with his friendes, to knowe their mindes if that they would fauour and beare him cöpany, at whose handes he found both ready helpe and friendshippe. Hee sought then for money, and toke vp vpon his credit foure M. Castlyns in gold, of his friend _Andreas de Duero_, & of _Pedro de Xerez_ & others. With y^e which money he bought two ships, 6. horses, & much apparel, & began to furnish a house & kepe a good table for cömers & goers: he went also armed like a captaine, & many wayting & attëding vpon him, whereat diuerse murmured, saying that hee was a Lord without rente. In thys meane whyle came _Grijalua_ to the Cittie of Sainte _Iames de Cuba_: but hys kinseman the gouernour woulde not loke vppon hym bycause he had lefte and forsaken so riche a lande. Also it grieued him inwardlye that _Cortez_ procéeded thitherward so strong and mightye, and coulde by no meanes disturbe or lette hym, and to sée the greate traine that wayted vppon hym wyth manye of them that had byn the other voyage with _Grijalua_: yea if that he should disturbe him, bloud shedde would follow in the Citie. So that he was forced to dissemble his sorow. Yet (as many affyrme) hee commaunded that hee shoulde haue no victuals solde vnto hym. Nowe _Cortez_ departed from thence, proclayming himselfe for General, and that the gouernour _Valasques_ had nothing to doe wyth hys Nauie, requesting his soldiers to enbarke themselues wyth such victuals as they had. He also bargayned wyth one _Fernando Alfonso_ for certaine Hogges and Shéepe that were prepared for the shambles, and gaue vnto hym a chayne of golde and brouches for payment, and also moneye, to pay the penaltie that the butcher fel into for not prouiding the Cittie. And so he departed frö Saint _Iames de Baracoa_ the eightéenth of Nouember, with about thrée hundred Spaniardes in sixe shippes. The nauie and men that Cortez caried _with him to the Conquest_.