The pleasant historie of the conquest of the VVeast India, now called new Spayne: atchieued by the vvorthy Prince Hernando Cortes, marques of the Valley of Huaxacac, most delectable to readeLópez de Gómara, Francisco
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The pleasant historie of the conquest of the VVeast India, now called new Spayne: atchieued by the vvorthy Prince Hernando Cortes, marques of the Valley of Huaxacac, most delectable to reade
López de Gómara, Francisco
Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547; Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540; Nahuatl language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
the seruice of God and the King, that if they would goe to conquere,
that then they shoulde séeke other Countreys, hauing so good an armye
and fléete, and Countreys ynough to séeke. This diligëce, request and
authoritie of the Licentiate _Aillon_, to _Velasques_ and _Naruaez_
preuayled not: he séeyng their obstinacie and little regarde to him
being a chiefe Iudge, determined to goe with _Naruaez_ in his Shippe,
to lette and disturbe the greate hurte that might follow, thinking
there in the newe _Spayne_ to perswade _Naruaez_, better than in the
presence of _Velasques_, yea and also if néede should bée, to be a
meane of quietnesse betwixt them.
_Pamfilo de Naruaez_ tooke shipping in _Guaniguanico_, and sailed
till he came néere vnto _Vera Crux_ with al his fléete, and hauing
intelligence that there were a hundred and fiftie Spanyards of _Cortes_
his band, he sente vnto them a Priest, with one _Iohn Ruiz de Gueuara_,
and _Alonso de Vergara_, to require them to receyue him for their
Captayne and gouernoure. But the newe Citizens would giue no eare to
their talke, but rather apprehended them, & sente them prisoners to
_Mexico_ to _Cortez_, to aduertise hym of their embassage, wherevpö
_Naruaez_ vnshipped his men, horses, armor, & artillery, & wët w^t thë
directly to _Zëpoallä_. The _Indian Comarcans_ being as well friends
to _Cortez_, as vassals to _Mutezuma_, gaue vnto him golde, mantels,
and vittayles, thinking that they had bin _Cortez_ his men.
The substance of a letter that Cortez
_wrote vnto Naruaez_.
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