But before his departing, he declared vnto his cöpany, saying, I trust ye haue in remembräce what & how much I haue done for you, since y^e beginning of this enterprise, yea & also how louingly & friendly yée haue dealt for me: Yée shall now vnderstand that _Iames Velasques_, in stéede of thankes giuing vs, hath sent to murder vs, _Pamfilo de Naruaez_, who is a stubborne & an vnreasonable man, one readie to execute our good desertes done in the seruice of God & our Prince, with an euill reward. And the cause is only, for doyng our duetie in the sending of the Kings parte & portiö to his Roiall person & not vnto him. Also this _Naruaez_ hath already confiscated our goodes, and giuen them to other men, and our bodies condemned to the Gallows, yea and our fame and honour plaide at tables, with great iniurious & slanderous wordes proclaymed agaynst vs, which things truly are not of a Christian, no nor yet we with Gods helpe will let the matter so to slippe: yea and though we ought to leaue the reuengment vnto God, yet we will not suffer them to enioy our trauayles & paynes, who are now comen white fingered to spoile the bloud of their neighbours, yea & like madde men to striue against their owne nation, sowing slander among those _Indians_ which serued vs as our friëds, yea & procuring more cruel warres, than the ciuill warre betwene _Mario_ & _Sila_, or of _Cesar_ & _Pompeio_, who turned vpsidowne the Romaine Empire. Wherfore I do determine to méete him by y^e way, & not to suffer him to come vnto _Mexico_, for it is better to say, God saue you, than they to come & say who is there? yea & though they are many, a good hart doth breake euil fortune, as it hath appered by vs, who haue passed thorow the pikes since our cöming hither: moreouer, I doubte not but that many of _Naruaez_ his cöpany will come vnto vs. Therfore my déere friends doe I giue you aduise of my pretence, to the entent y^t those which wil go with me, may them prepare thëselues, & those that will not, let them remaine to kéepe _Mexico_ & _Mutezuma_, whiche is as much in effect. At the end of this talke he promised great rewards if y^t with victory he returned. His më answered al w^t one voyce, y^t they were al at his cömandemët, & ready to fulfil his wil, yet some feared the pride & blindnesse of _Pamfilo de Naruaez_: on the other side the _Indians_ began to be lusty, to sée dissention among the Spanyardes, & that the _Indians_ of the coast were ioyned in league with the new come më. The requests of Cortez to Mutezuma. [Sidenote: Oh vvise Cortes.]