As touchyng his owne causes, first he beyng a man of good yéeres, went to marry, hoping to haue children, vnto whom he might leaue the profite of his labour and payne: also to appeare before the King his maister face to face, and to enforme his Maiestie what landes and Kyngdomes hée had wonne and brought vnto his royall crowne: To signifie lykewise vnto hym, of the dissention among the Spanyardes hys subiectes in _Mexico_, and to answere for himselfe, to any false reportes whiche had bene made agaynst hym: And finally, to receyue a condigne rewarde for hys worthie and faythfull seruice. _Cortes_ beyng in these imaginations, there was brought a letter vnto him, from the reuerend father _Garcia de Loaisa_ ghostly father vnto the Emperour, and afterwarde was ordeyned Cardinall, in the whiche letter he conuited him earnestly to come vnto Spayne, to the entent that the Emperours Maiestie mighte bothe sée and know him, assuring him of his friendshippe. After the receyte of this letter, he made al the hast possible to departe vpon his iourney, ceasing from his voyage whiche he had in hande, for to inhabite the riuer _De las Palmas_. Before his departure he dispatched twoo hundred Spaniardes, & thrée score and ten horsemen, with many _Mexicans_ for the countrey of _Chichimea_, to inhabite there, finding the lande riche of siluer mines, as it was reported, giuyng vnto those men expresse order, that if the people of that prouince did not entertayne them with friendship, that then they should accept thë as enimies, and forthwith to make warre, and to take them for slaues, for that they are a barbarous people. He wrote his letter to _Vera Crux_, to prepare with all spéede twoo good shippes, and for that purpose he sent _Pero ruiz de Esquiuel_, who was a Gentleman of Siuill: But he wente not on the iourney, for a moneth after, they founde him buried in a little Iland of the lake, with one hande out of the graue, whiche was eaten with dogges and foule: he was buried in his dublet and his hose: he had one onely wounde in his forehead: And a _Negro_, his slaue, who wente in his company, was neuer hearde of, nor yet the _Canao_ and _Indians_ that wente with him, so that the truth of his death was neuer knowen.