[XX-4] It certainly appears strange that Córdoba, knowing so well the character of his master, should so tamely have delivered himself into his hands. The chroniclers sympathize with any victim of the abhorred governor. 'Estaba muy bien quisto comunmente,' says Oviedo, 'de todos los españoles ... culpaban ... á Pedrarias de inconstante é acelerado é mal juez.' iii. 165-6. His rebellion 'parecio siempre incierto,' is the unstudied qualification of Remesal, Hist. Chyapa, 164.
[XX-5] Juan Carrasco and Christóbal de la Torre. Herrera, dec. iii. lib. ix. cap. vii.
[XX-6] News coming of the approach of a royal governor, Saavedra would send nothing but advice.
[XX-7] 'Estando de acuerdo ciento y cincuenta Caziques.' Herrera, dec. iii. lib. ix. cap. x.
[XX-8] His achievements are related in vol. i. chaps. ii. and iii. of the History of Mexico, this series.
[XX-9] Herrera, who is somewhat contradictory on this point, names Gabriel de Rojas, Garabito, and Diego Álvarez among the ruling men. dec. iv. lib. i. cap. vi. Salcedo, in Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., xiv. 47 et seq., gives also a list of the Leon city officials.
[XX-10] The two months' voyage had proved pleasant, being marred only by the death of two men during an attack by the natives of Dominica Island, where they had entered to repair a leaky vessel. Oviedo, iii. 116.
[XX-11] 'Por manera que estas mudanças de gobernadores es saltar de la sarten en las brasas.' Oviedo, iii. 123.
[XX-12] 'É como era hombre ydiota é sin letras, el se movió por consejo de aquel bachiller Corral, para me haçer matar á trayçion.' Oviedo, iii. 122.
[XX-13] See, for instance, Castilla, Carta, in Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., xii. 85.