[XIX-31] Id., 215. 'Para este efeto fletó un navio en la Villa de Medellin.' Oviedo, iii. 523. He came in the vessel which had carried the messenger. Cortés, Cartas, 476.
[XIX-32] Lordship, a title which pertained only to the higher nobility and to the highest offices, and which Cortés, even as governor and captain-general, had not the slightest right to assume.
[XIX-33] Seat of honor for princes and prelates and for the ruling men in a province.
[XIX-34] Gomara, Hist. Mex., 273; Herrera, dec. iii. lib. viii. cap. vii.
[XIX-35] Messengers were sent to the pueblos en route ordering them to put the road in order and prepare for his reception. Some of the Mexican auxiliaries were also appointed for the work, says Ixtlilxochitl, but their remaining prince stayed with Cortés. Horribles Crueldades, 110.
[XIX-36] 'Recibió el cuerpo de Christo vna mañana porque como estaua tan malo, temia morirse.' Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 215. Prescott ignores the friar, and assumes that Sandoval persuaded him to leave. But this is only one of the many errors into which he has fallen concerning this expedition, Mex., iii. 302.
[XIX-37] The natives were to be punished for persevering in idolatry; although Indians must not be enslaved, yet slaves held lawfully by them might be purchased as such by the colonists. The instructions contain a number of minor rules for the good government of province and towns. Cortés, Escritos Sueltos, 75-95. Saavedra did not perhaps relish the idea of being left with a comparatively small force, for Bernal Diaz complains that he purposely withheld for some time the order permitting the Naco company to leave for Mexico. Hist. Verdad., 215, 219. The leading authorities for Cortés' different expeditions to Honduras are: Cortés, Cartas, 338, 351, 369, et seq.; Id., Escritos Sueltos, 70-95, 318; Id., Carta al Rey, in Icazbalceta, Col. Doc., i. 481-2; Albornoz, Carta, in Id., i. 484-6; Peter Martyr, dec. viii. cap. x.; Oviedo, iii. 188-9, 446, 458-9, 517-18; Gomara, Hist. Mex., 233-4, 243-6, 250-74; Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 159, 176-7, 193-216; Letters and Reports by Cortés and other officers to the Emperor and Council, in Doc. Inéd., i. 521-4, iv. 226-7, et seq., and in Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., xii. 268-77, 362-7, 386-403; xiii. 46-7, 108-9, 293-4, 397; xiv. 25-43, et seq.; Cerezeda, Carta, in Squier's MSS., xx. 61; Ixtlilxochitl, Horribles Crueldades, 78-110; Chimalpain, Conq. Mex., ii. 106-53; Herrera, dec. iii. lib. v. cap. vii.-viii. xii.-xiii.; lib. vi. cap. x. xii.; lib. vii. cap. viii.; lib. viii. cap. iii.-vi.; lib. x. cap. xi. Less important books, which add little or nothing to the preceding, are: Torquemada, i. 574-6; Remesal, Hist. Chyapa, 164; Cogolludo, Hist. Yucathan, 44-58; Villagutierre, Hist. Conq. Itza, 39-50; Duran, Hist. Ind., MS., ii. 521-2; Pinelo, Relacion, 2; Vazquez, Chronica de Gvat., 18-20; Cortés, Hist. N. España, 351-2, 367-9; Pizarro y Orellana, Varones Ilvstres, 108-16; Galvano's Discov., 160-4; Twee Onderscheydene Togten, 52-80, 95-107, in Aa, Naaukeurige Versameling, xi.; Twee Verscheyde Togten, 19-76, 94, in Id.; Gottfried, Reysen, iv.; Ogilby's Am., 91-2; Salazar, Conq. Mex., 154-8, 211-311; Revilla, in Solis, Hist. Mex. (ed. Mad., 1843), 463-9; Beaumont, Cron. Mich., iii. 189-92; Juarros, Guat., 55, 123, 324-7; Cavo, Tres Siglos, i. 29-30, 46-8; Veytia, Hist. Ant. Méj., iii. 420; Laet, Nov. Orb., 318; Voyages, New Col., i. 347; World Displayed, ii. 251; Lardner's Hist. Discov., ii. 62; Gordon's Hist. Ant. Mex., ii. 203, 209-15, 240-1; Fancourt's Hist. Yuc., 39; Squier's States Cent. Am., 66; Rivera, Hist. Jalapa, i. 44; Bustamante, Cuad. Hist., i. 42; Alaman, Disert., i. 196-7, 203-23, 234-5; append., 129-37; ii. 17-18; Rivera, Gob. Mex., i. 17; Zamacois, Hist. Méj., iv. 178-9, 236-326, 349-53, 369, 739-56; Cortés, Aven. y Conq., 285-9; Prescott's Mex., iii. 276-302; Helps' Cortés, ii. 183-228; Id., Span. Conq., iii. 30-61; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., iv. 573-617; Bussierre, Mex., 339-49, 380; Larenaudière, Mex. et Guat., 136-7; Monglave, Résumé, 138; Armin, Alte Mex., 351-61; Mayer's Mex. Aztec., i. 86; Abbott's Cortés, 305-29; Wells' Honduras, 449-57; Pelaez, Mem. Guat., i. 53-4.
[XX-1] The reader will remember how, in the last chapter, Cortés treated the messengers bearing this petition.
[XX-2] 'No los osó acometer porque tenia por cierto que habian de matar á él ántes que á nadie.' Andagoya, Rel., in Navarrete, Col. de Viages, iii. 417.
[XX-3] Within the bay formed by Punta de Burica, into which flows, among other small streams, the river known at present as Fonseca. Cartography Pac. Coast, MS., ii. 79.