[723] Ibid., xiv. 25.
[724] Ibid., xiv. 47.
[725] Navarrete, Coleccion, iii. 413-418; Markham’s translation, pp. 31-38; see also Oviedo, iii. 65 et seq.; Las Casas, v. 200 et seq.; Peter Martyr, dec. vi. chaps. ii.-viii.; Herrera, dec. ii. lib. 3, chap. xv. and lib. 4 etc., dec. iii. lib. 4, chaps. v. and vi.; Helps, iii. 69-76.
[726] Cf. Bancroft, Central America, i. 483, note. [See the Introduction to the present volume.—Ed.]
[727] Central America, i. 478-492, 512-521, and 527-538. This letter, which is dated at Santo Domingo (March 6, 1524), has since been printed in Peralta’s Costa Rica, Nicaragua y Panamá en el Siglo XVI. (Madrid, 1883), p. 3, where is also (p. 27) his Itinerario, beginning “21 de Enero de 1522.”
[728] For Esquivel and Jamaica, see Herrera, dec. i. lib. 8, chap. v.; Navarrete, Coleccion, iii. 171. For Ocampo’s voyage, Oviedo, i. 495; Las Casas, iii. 210; Herrera, dec. i. lib. 7, chap. i.; Stevens’s Notes, p. 35; Helps, i. 415, and ii. 165.
[729] See also Herrera, dec. i. lib. 9, chaps. iv., vii., and xv.; also lib. 10, chap. viii.; Helps, i. 415-432, and Vida de Cortés in Icazbalceta, Coleccion ... para la historia de México, i. 319-337. [There is a little contemporary account of the conquest of Cuba in the Lenox Library, Provinciæ ... noviter reperta in ultima navigatione, which seems to be a Latin version of a Spanish original now lost (Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 101). On the death of Velasquez, see Magazine of American History, i. 622, 692.—Ed.]
[730] Coleccion, iii. 53.
[731] Oviedo, i. 497; Las Casas, iv. 348-363; Peter Martyr, dec. iv. chap. i.; Herrera, dec. ii. lib. 2, chap. xvii.; Navarrete, Coleccion, iii. 53; Cogolludo, Historia de Yucatan, 3; Prescott, Mexico, i. 222; Helps, ii. 211-217; Bancroft, Central America, i. 132, and Mexico, i. 5-11.
[732] [Cf. the chapter on Cortés.—Ed.]