[XIX-11] 'Murieron ochenta Españoles sin algunos Indios en este viaje.' Gomara, Hist. Mex., 269. Licenciado Lopez escaped to spread the news of Cortés' being alive. Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 208.
[XIX-12] Together with Moreno 'in chains.' 'Although I fear that he acted by order of the oidores, and that no justice will be given.' Cortés, Cartas, 465-6. He praised the wealth of Honduras, and asked for soldiers. 'Y para dar credito que auia oro, embiò muchas joyas, y pieças ... de lo que truxo de Mexico,' says Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 208. But he is by no means to be relied on.
[XIX-13] Bernal Diaz assumes, contrary to Cortés' clear statement, that Zuazo sent a vessel from Habana with the letter, and that two days before her arrival at Trujillo came two vessels laden with merchandise from the oidores and merchants of Santo Domingo, who had learned of Cortés' whereabouts through a letter from one of the survivors of Ávalos' wrecked ship. Hist. Verdad., 208. Gomara states that the vessel from the oidores, laden with thirty-two horses, saddlery, and other useful material, was turned back from Cuba by the survivors of Ávalos' expedition. She touched at Santo Domingo on her way to Honduras. Hist. Mex., 270. Cortés shows that the news of Ávalos' shipwreck did not reach him till some time later. Cartas, 468-471.
[XIX-14] The staff did all they could to cheer him, and among other efforts to dispel his gloom, Mañueco, the maestresala, made a wager that he would ascend in full armor the steep hill to the new gubernatorial building. Before he could reach the top he fell dead. Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 211.
[XIX-15] 'Dejé en aquella villa hasta treinta y cinco de caballo y cincuenta peones.' Cortés, Cartas, 470.
[XIX-16] He places this just before the arrival of Zuazo's letter, Hist. Verdad., 209, but Cortés now for the first time complains of feeling very ill, from the tossing at sea. Cartas, 471.
[XIX-17] 'Martin Dorantes su lacayo.' Gomara, Hist. Mex., 271. On October 23, 1525, it seems from a letter of Cortés. Cartas, 395. Bernal Diaz intimates that a fear of being seized by his enemies had to do with Cortés' disinclination to go in person. Hist. Verdad., 212.
[XIX-18] In concluding the reply to their expostulations, Cortés had observed that he could find plenty of soldiers in Spain and elsewhere to do his bidding. The men commissioned Sandoval to plead their cause in person; to urge the leader to depart, and to hint that they could find governors in Mexico to right them. Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 212.
[XIX-19] 'É dos leguas el uno del otro ... el de Papayeca tiene diez y ocho pueblos subjectos, y el de Champagua diez.' Cortés, Cartas, 465. The names are also given as Chapaxina, Papaica, etc.
[XIX-20] The two colleagues had been usurping guardians. They were to be taken to Mexico to be impressed with the extent of Spanish power, and to learn submission from its natives. Pizacura died before leaving Honduras. Cortés, Cartas, 473; Gomara, Hist. Mex., 272.