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(2010). Chapter 41. The Letters from the Cabildo and the Army to the Emperor Regarding Cortés’s Appointment as Governor. In S. Schroeder (Ed.), Chimalpahin's Conquest: A Nahua Historian's Rewriting of Francisco Lopez de Gomara's La conquista de Mexico (pp. 127-129). Redwood City: Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804775069-045

2010. Chapter 41. The Letters from the Cabildo and the Army to the Emperor Regarding Cortés’s Appointment as Governor. In: Schroeder, S. ed. Chimalpahin's Conquest: A Nahua Historian's Rewriting of Francisco Lopez de Gomara's La conquista de Mexico. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, pp. 127-129. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804775069-045

"Chapter 41. The Letters from the Cabildo and the Army to the Emperor Regarding Cortés’s Appointment as Governor" In Chimalpahin's Conquest: A Nahua Historian's Rewriting of Francisco Lopez de Gomara's La conquista de Mexico edited by Susan Schroeder, 127-129. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804775069-045

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Frontmatter i
Contents v
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction
I. The History of Chimalpahin’s “Conquista” Manuscript 3
II. Reclaiming the Conquest 17
III. Francisco López de Gómara and La conquista de México 35
The Conquest of Mexico
Chapter 1. The Birth of Hernando Cortés 51
Chapter 2. Cortés’s Age When He Sailed to the Indies 53
Chapter 3. Hernando Cortés’s Stay in Santo Domingo 54
Chapter 4. Some Things that Happened to Cortés in Cuba 55
Chapter 5. The Discovery of New Spain, and Other Things 58
Chapter 6. Juan de Grijalva’s Barter from the Islands of Yucatan and San Juan de Ulúa 60
Chapter 7. The Conquest of Mexico, and Cortés’s Preparations to Arm the Fleet 63
Chapter 8. The Men and Ships that Cortés Took for the Conquest 67
Chapter 9. Cortés Speaks to His Troops with Great Discretion as a Good Captain 69
Chapter 10. Cortés’s Entry into Acuzamil 70
Chapter 11. News from the People of Cozumel About the Spanish Interpreter Gerónimo de Aguilar 73
Chapter 12. Gerónimo de Aguilar Comes to Hernando Cortés 74
Chapter 13. Cortés Orders the Destruction of the Cozumel Idols 77
Chapter 14. How the Island Was Named Cozumel Santa Cruz 78
Chapter 15. The People of Cozumel’s Religion and Temples, or Cues 79
Chapter 16. In Which Is Told the Story of the Shark, and Other Marvels 80
Chapter 17. The Tides Rise Greatly at Campeche, but Not Nearby 81
Chapter 18. The Battle and Capture of Potonchan 82
Chapter 19. Which Narrates the Battle with the Indians of Potonchan 84
Chapter 20. Of the Demands and Replies Between Cortés and the People of Potonchan 86
Chapter 21. The Battle of Cintla, or Tzintla, that Cortés and His Men Fought with the Indians of Cintla 89
Chapter 22. How the Cacique of Tabasco Befriended the Christians 91
Chapter 23. Questions that Cortés Asked the Cacique of Tabasco 93
Chapter 24. How the Indians of Potonchan Destroyed Their Idols and Worshiped the Cross 94
Chapter 25. On the Río Alvarado, Which the Indians Called Papaloapan 95
Chapter 26. The Warm Reception Given Cortés in San Juan de Ulúa 97
Chapter 27. How Cortés Spoke with Teudilli, a Servant of King Moteuczoma 99
Chapter 28. The Gifts and Response that Moteuczoma Sent to Cortés 102
Chapter 29. How Cortés Learned that There Were Factions Among the Natives in Those Lands 104
Chapter 30. How Cortés Explored the Land with Four Hundred Companions 106
Chapter 31. How Cortés Resigned His Command 108
Chapter 32. How the Soldiers Made Cortés Captain and Alcalde Mayor 110
Chapter 33. The Reception Given Cortés in Cempoala 111
Chapter 34. What the Lord of Cempoala Said to Cortés 114
Chapter 35. What Occurred or Happened to Cortés at the Port of Quiahuahuiztlan, and Other Remarkable Events 117
Chapter 36. The Messages that Cortés Sent to King Moteuczoma 118
Chapter 37. The Rebellion and Alliance Against Moteuczoma Plotted by Cortés 120
Chapter 38. The Founding of Villa Rica de la Veracruz 121
Chapter 39. How Cortés Took Tizapancinco124 by Force, and Other Occurrences 123
Chapter 40. The Gift that Cortés Sent to Emperor Carlos V 124
Chapter 41. The Letters from the Cabildo and the Army to the Emperor Regarding Cortés’s Appointment as Governor 127
Chapter 42. The Mutiny Against Cortés, and the Punishment that He Inflicted 129
Chapter 43. How Cortés, Using Great Cunning, Scuttled His Ships 130
Chapter 44. The Indians of Tlaxcala [sic]131 Cast Down Their Idols Because of Cortés’s Admonitions 131
Chapter 45. Olimtletl, Lord of Zaclotan,137 Extols the Might and Greatness of Moteuczoma 133
Chapter 46. Cortés’s First Clash with the Tlaxcalteca 137
Chapter 47. How One Hundred and Forty Thousand Gathered Against Cortés 139
Chapter 48. The Great Threats Made by the Tlaxcalteca Against Our Spaniards 142
Chapter 49. How Cortés Cut Off the Hands of Fifty Spies 145
Chapter 50. Moteuczoma’s Embassy to Cortés 146
Chapter 51. How Cortés Captured Zimpancinco, a Very Large City Subject to Tlaxcala 148
Chapter 52. On the Wish by Some Spaniards to Abandon the Budding War 150
Chapter 53. Cortés’s Oration to His Soldiers. On the Address Captain Hernando Cortés Gave to All His Soldiers 151
Chapter 54. How Captain Xicotencatl Came as Ambassador of Tlaxcala to Cortés’s Camp 153
Chapter 55. The Reception and Service Given Our Spaniards in the Great City of Tlaxcala 155
Chapter 56. An Account About Tlaxcala, Its Lifeways, and the Governance of the Republic 156
Chapter 57. The Tlaxcalteca’s Response to Captain Cortés on Abandoning Their Idols 159
Chapter 58. On the Great Ancient Enmity that Existed Between the Mexica and the Tlaxcalteca 160
Chapter 59. The Solemn Reception Given to the Spaniards at Great Cholola 162
Chapter 60. How the Chololteca Attempted to Betray and Murder the Spaniards 164
Chapter 61. How Cortés Punished the Chololteca for Their Treason of the Spaniards and Their Friends 166
Chapter 62. On the Greatness of the City and Sanctuary of Cholola, and the Rites Practiced There 169
Chapter 63. The Mountain Called Popocatepec 170
Chapter 64. The Council Held by Moteuczoma Before Allowing Cortés to Go to Mexico 172
Chapter 65. On What Occurred to Cortés Between Cholola and Mexico 174
Chapter 66. On the Admirable Reception Given Cortés by King Moteuczoma 180
Chapter 67. How King Moteuczoma Spoke to the Spaniards, Welcoming Them 185
Chapter 68. On the Cleanliness and Majesty of King Moteuczoma’s Physical Appearance 187
Chapter 69. On the Foot Jugglers 189
Chapter 70. On the Ball Game 191
Chapter 71. The Dances of Mexico 192
Chapter 72. The [LdeG: Many] Women that King Moteuczoma Had in the Palace 194
Chapter 73. The House of Birds Kept for Their Feathers 195
Chapter 74. The House of Birds for the Hunt 196
Chapter 75. The Armories 198
Chapter 76. Moteuczoma’s Gardens 199
Chapter 77. Moteuzcoma’s Court and Guard 199
Chapter 78. Everyone Pays Tribute to King Moteuczoma 200
Chapter 79. On Mexico Tenochtitlan 202
Chapter 80. The Marketplaces of Mexico 205
Chapter 81. The Temple of Mexico 209
Chapter 82. The Idols of Mexico 211
Chapter 83. The Skull Rack that the Mexica Had as a Reminder of Death 212
Chapter 84. Cortés Takes Moteuczoma Prisoner 213
Chapter 85. Moteuczoma’s Hunt 216
Chapter 86. How Cortés Destroyed the Idols of Mexico 217
Chapter 87. Cortés’s Speech to the People of Mexico About the Idols 218
Chapter 88. The Burning of Qualpopoca and Other Noblemen 220
Chapter 89. The Reason Qualpopoca Was Burned 221
Chapter 90. How Cortés Shackled Moteuczoma 221
Chapter 91. Cortés Orders a Search for Gold in Many Places 222
Chapter 92. The Imprisonment of King Cacamatzin of Tetzcoco 225
Chapter 93. Moteuczoma’s Oration to His Noblemen, Offering Himself to the King of Castile 227
Chapter 94. The Gold and Jewels Moteuczoma Gave Cortés 229
Chapter 95. How Moteuczoma Begged Cortés to Leave Mexico 230
Chapter 96. How King Moteuczoma Sent for Captain Cortés to Drive Him from the Land 231
Chapter 97. Cortés and His Men Fear Being Sacrificed 233
Chapter 98. How Diego Velázquez Sent Pánfilo de Narváez with Many People to Attack Cortés 234
Chapter 99. What Cortés Wrote to Narváez 236
Chapter 100. What Pánfilo de Narváez Told [LdeG: the Indians and] Cortés 238
Chapter 101. What Cortés Told His Men 240
Chapter 102. Cortés Pleads with Moteuczoma 241
Chapter 103. The Imprisonment of Pánfilo de Narváez 242
Chapter 104. The Death Toll from Smallpox 245
Chapter 105. The Mexica Rebel Against the Spaniards 246
Chapter 106. The Reasons for the Rebellion 247
Chapter 107. The Mexica Threaten the Spaniards 249
Chapter 108. The Dire Straits in Which the Mexica Placed Our People 251
Chapter 109. The Death of Moteuczoma 252
Chapter 110. The Fighting Between Them 254
Chapter 111. The Mexica Refuse the Truces Proposed by Cortés 256
Chapter 112. How Cortés Fled Mexico 258
Chapter 113. The Battle at Otumba 261
Chapter 114. The Welcome Given the Spaniards in Tlaxcala 264
Chapter 115. What the Soldiers Petitioned Cortés 265
Chapter 116. Oration in Response to the Official Petition 267
Chapter 117. The War at Tepeaca 268
Chapter 118. How the People of Huacachola299 Submitted to Cortés After Killing the Colhuaque 270
Chapter 119. LdeG: The Capture of Itzocan 272
Chapter 120. The Great Authority Cortés Held over the Indians 274
Chapter 121. The Brigantines Cortés Built, and the Spaniards He Assembled to Fight Mexico 275
Chapter 122. On Captain Cortés’s Pronouncement to His Men 277
Chapter 123. Cortés Addresses the Tlaxcalteca 279
Chapter 124. How Cortés Took Tetzcoco 280
Chapter 125. The Battle of Iztacpalapan 283
Chapter 126. The Spaniards Sacrificed at Tetzcoco 285
Chapter 127. How the Brigantines Were Brought to Tetzcoco by the Tlaxcalteca 287
Chapter 128. On Cortés’s First View of Mexico in the Company of Friends and Three Hundred Spaniards 289
Chapter 129. An Account of the War Cortés Waged on the Province of Yacapichtlan 294
Chapter 130. The Dangers to Our People on Taking Two Peaks, and What Happened Next 297
Chapter 131. On Cortés’s Battle to Conquer Xochimilco and Its Towns 301
Chapter 132. On the Canal Cortés Built from Tetzcoco to the Lake to Bring the Brigantines to the Water, and Other Things 306
Chapter 133. LdeG: Cortés’s Army at the Siege of Mexico 309
Chapter 134. The Battle and Victory of the Brigantines over the Acales 311
Chapter 135. How Cortés Lay Siege to Mexico 314
Chapter 136. The First Skirmish in Mexico 315
Chapter 137. The General Damage and Burning of Houses 318
Chapter 138. On the Diligence of Quauhtemoc and Cortés 320
Chapter 139. How Cortés Had Two Hundred Thousand Men Surround Mexico 321
Chapter 140. What Pedro de Alvarado Did in Order to Advance 323
Chapter 141. The Mexica’s Festivities and Sacrifices over a Victory 323
Chapter 142. The (f. 114v) Conquest of Malinalco, Matlatzinco, and Other Towns 326
Chapter 143. On Cortés’s Determination to Lay Waste to Mexico 328
Chapter 144. The Hunger and Ailments that the Mexica Courageously Endured 330
Chapter 145. The Capture of Quauhtemoc 332
Chapter 146. On the Capture of Mexico 335
Chapter 147. Signs and Portents of the Destruction of Mexico 336
Chapter 148. How Quauhtemoc and Other Lords Were Tortured in Order to Reveal the Treasure at Coyoacan 337
Chapter 149. The Royal Fifth and Service from the Spoils of Mexico 338
Chapter 150. How Cazoncin,390 King of Michoacan, Surrendered to Cortés 339
Chapter 151. The Conquest of Tochtepec and Coatzacoalco by Gonzalo de Sandoval 341
Chapter 152. The Conquest of Tutepec 342
Chapter 153. The War at Coliman 343
Chapter 154. About Cristóbal de Tapia, Who Went to Mexico as Governor 344
Chapter 155. The War at Pánuco 346
Chapter 156. How Francisco de Garay Went to Pánuco with a Large Fleet 348
Chapter 157. The Death of Adelantado Francisco de Garay 350
Chapter 158. The Pacification of Pánuco 353
Chapter 159. The Tribulations of Licenciado Alonso Zuazo 354
Chapter 160. The Conquest of Utlatlan by Pedro de Alvarado 354
Chapter 161. The Conquest of Guatemala 356
Chapter 162. The War at Chamolla 359
Chapter 163. The Fleet Cortés Sent to Las Higueras with Cristóbal de Olid 360
Chapter 164. The Conquest of the Zapotec Region 361
Chapter 165. The Rebuilding of Mexico 361
Chapter 166. How Cortés Took Care to Enrich New Spain 364
Chapter 167. How the Bishop of Burgos Was Recused [LdeG: from Cortés’s Affairs] 365
Chapter 168. How Cortés Became Governor 366
Chapter 169. On the Conquerors 367
Chapter 170. How Cortés Carried Out the Conversion of the Indians 368
Chapter 171. The Silver Cannon that Cortés Fashioned for the Emperor 369
Chapter 172. On the Strait that Many Searched for in the Indies 371
Chapter 173. How Cristóbal de Olid Rebelled Against Hernando Cortés 372
Chapter 174. How Cortés Left Mexico to Challenge Cristóbal de Olid 374
Chapter 175. How Cortés’s Lieutenants Rebelled Against Him in Mexico 376
Chapter 176. The Imprisonment of the Factor and the Inspector 379
Chapter 177. The People Cortés Took to Las Higueras 381
Chapter 178. On the Priests of Tatahuitlapan 384
Chapter 179. The Bridge Built by Cortés 386
Chapter 180. On Apoxpalon, Lord of Yzancanac 388
Chapter 181. The Death of don Hernando de Alvarado Quauhtemoc 389
Chapter 182. How Canek Burned the Idols 392
Chapter 183. A Difficult Road Taken by Our Men 395
Chapter 184. What Cortés Accomplished in Nito 398
Chapter 185. How Cortés Arrived at Naco 401
Chapter 186. How Cortés Responded to the Conflict in Mexico 403
Chapter 187. The War at Papaica 405
Chapter 188. On Cortés’s Return to New Spain 407
Chapter 189. On the Celebrations in Mexico in Cortés’s Honor 409
Chapter 190. How the Emperor Ordered a Residencia Be Taken for Cortés 410
Chapter 191. The Death of Luis Ponce [de León] 413
Chapter 192. How Alonso de Estrada Exiled Cortés from Mexico 414
Chapter 193. How Cortés Sent Ships in Search of the Spice Islands 416
Chapter 194. How Cortés Came to Spain 418
Chapter 195. The Favors Granted to Cortés by the Emperor 421
Chapter 196. On Cortés’s Marriage 422
Chapter 197. How the Emperor Established an Audiencia in Mexico 423
Chapter 198. Cortés Returns to Mexico 425
Chapter 199. How Cortés Explored the South Sea Coast in New Spain 426
Chapter 200. What Cortés Suffered on Continuing the Exploration of the South [Sea] 428
Chapter 201. The Sea of Cortés, Also Called Bermejo, or the Crimson Sea 432
Chapter 202. On Writing in Mexico 433
Chapter 203. On the Terms for Counting 433
Chapter 204. On the Mexica Year 434
Chapter 205. On the Names of the Months 435
Chapter 206. On the Names of the Days 436
Chapter 207. On the Year Count 439
Chapter 208. On the Five Suns that Are Five Ages 441
Chapter 209. The Chichimeca 442
Chapter 210. The Acolhuaque 443
Chapter 211. The Mexica 443
Chapter 212. Why They Are Called the Acolhuaque 445
Chapter 213. On the Kings of Mexico 446
Chapter 214. On Typical Inheritance Practices 449
Chapter 215. The Swearing In and Coronation of the King 450
Chapter 216. The Nobility of a Teuctli 452
Chapter 217. What the Mexica Understand About the Soul 454
Chapter 218. On the Burial of Kings 455
Chapter 219. How the Kings of Michoacan Are Cremated for Burial 456
Chapter 220. On Children 458
Chapter 221. [LdeG: On the Enclosure of Women] 460
Chapter 222. On the Many Women 461
Chapter 223. Marriage Rites 462
Chapter 224. On Men’s Customs 464
Chapter 225. On Women’s Customs 465
Chapter 226. About the Household 466
Chapter 227. Of Wine and Drunkenness 467
Chapter 228. On Slaves 468
Chapter 229. On Judges and Laws 469
Glossary 471
Bibliography 479
Index 487

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Frontmatter i
Contents v
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction
I. The History of Chimalpahin’s “Conquista” Manuscript 3
II. Reclaiming the Conquest 17
III. Francisco López de Gómara and La conquista de México 35
The Conquest of Mexico
Chapter 1. The Birth of Hernando Cortés 51
Chapter 2. Cortés’s Age When He Sailed to the Indies 53
Chapter 3. Hernando Cortés’s Stay in Santo Domingo 54
Chapter 4. Some Things that Happened to Cortés in Cuba 55
Chapter 5. The Discovery of New Spain, and Other Things 58
Chapter 6. Juan de Grijalva’s Barter from the Islands of Yucatan and San Juan de Ulúa 60
Chapter 7. The Conquest of Mexico, and Cortés’s Preparations to Arm the Fleet 63
Chapter 8. The Men and Ships that Cortés Took for the Conquest 67
Chapter 9. Cortés Speaks to His Troops with Great Discretion as a Good Captain 69
Chapter 10. Cortés’s Entry into Acuzamil 70
Chapter 11. News from the People of Cozumel About the Spanish Interpreter Gerónimo de Aguilar 73
Chapter 12. Gerónimo de Aguilar Comes to Hernando Cortés 74
Chapter 13. Cortés Orders the Destruction of the Cozumel Idols 77
Chapter 14. How the Island Was Named Cozumel Santa Cruz 78
Chapter 15. The People of Cozumel’s Religion and Temples, or Cues 79
Chapter 16. In Which Is Told the Story of the Shark, and Other Marvels 80
Chapter 17. The Tides Rise Greatly at Campeche, but Not Nearby 81
Chapter 18. The Battle and Capture of Potonchan 82
Chapter 19. Which Narrates the Battle with the Indians of Potonchan 84
Chapter 20. Of the Demands and Replies Between Cortés and the People of Potonchan 86
Chapter 21. The Battle of Cintla, or Tzintla, that Cortés and His Men Fought with the Indians of Cintla 89
Chapter 22. How the Cacique of Tabasco Befriended the Christians 91
Chapter 23. Questions that Cortés Asked the Cacique of Tabasco 93
Chapter 24. How the Indians of Potonchan Destroyed Their Idols and Worshiped the Cross 94
Chapter 25. On the Río Alvarado, Which the Indians Called Papaloapan 95
Chapter 26. The Warm Reception Given Cortés in San Juan de Ulúa 97
Chapter 27. How Cortés Spoke with Teudilli, a Servant of King Moteuczoma 99
Chapter 28. The Gifts and Response that Moteuczoma Sent to Cortés 102
Chapter 29. How Cortés Learned that There Were Factions Among the Natives in Those Lands 104
Chapter 30. How Cortés Explored the Land with Four Hundred Companions 106
Chapter 31. How Cortés Resigned His Command 108
Chapter 32. How the Soldiers Made Cortés Captain and Alcalde Mayor 110
Chapter 33. The Reception Given Cortés in Cempoala 111
Chapter 34. What the Lord of Cempoala Said to Cortés 114
Chapter 35. What Occurred or Happened to Cortés at the Port of Quiahuahuiztlan, and Other Remarkable Events 117
Chapter 36. The Messages that Cortés Sent to King Moteuczoma 118
Chapter 37. The Rebellion and Alliance Against Moteuczoma Plotted by Cortés 120
Chapter 38. The Founding of Villa Rica de la Veracruz 121
Chapter 39. How Cortés Took Tizapancinco124 by Force, and Other Occurrences 123
Chapter 40. The Gift that Cortés Sent to Emperor Carlos V 124
Chapter 41. The Letters from the Cabildo and the Army to the Emperor Regarding Cortés’s Appointment as Governor 127
Chapter 42. The Mutiny Against Cortés, and the Punishment that He Inflicted 129
Chapter 43. How Cortés, Using Great Cunning, Scuttled His Ships 130
Chapter 44. The Indians of Tlaxcala [sic]131 Cast Down Their Idols Because of Cortés’s Admonitions 131
Chapter 45. Olimtletl, Lord of Zaclotan,137 Extols the Might and Greatness of Moteuczoma 133
Chapter 46. Cortés’s First Clash with the Tlaxcalteca 137
Chapter 47. How One Hundred and Forty Thousand Gathered Against Cortés 139
Chapter 48. The Great Threats Made by the Tlaxcalteca Against Our Spaniards 142
Chapter 49. How Cortés Cut Off the Hands of Fifty Spies 145
Chapter 50. Moteuczoma’s Embassy to Cortés 146
Chapter 51. How Cortés Captured Zimpancinco, a Very Large City Subject to Tlaxcala 148
Chapter 52. On the Wish by Some Spaniards to Abandon the Budding War 150
Chapter 53. Cortés’s Oration to His Soldiers. On the Address Captain Hernando Cortés Gave to All His Soldiers 151
Chapter 54. How Captain Xicotencatl Came as Ambassador of Tlaxcala to Cortés’s Camp 153
Chapter 55. The Reception and Service Given Our Spaniards in the Great City of Tlaxcala 155
Chapter 56. An Account About Tlaxcala, Its Lifeways, and the Governance of the Republic 156
Chapter 57. The Tlaxcalteca’s Response to Captain Cortés on Abandoning Their Idols 159
Chapter 58. On the Great Ancient Enmity that Existed Between the Mexica and the Tlaxcalteca 160
Chapter 59. The Solemn Reception Given to the Spaniards at Great Cholola 162
Chapter 60. How the Chololteca Attempted to Betray and Murder the Spaniards 164
Chapter 61. How Cortés Punished the Chololteca for Their Treason of the Spaniards and Their Friends 166
Chapter 62. On the Greatness of the City and Sanctuary of Cholola, and the Rites Practiced There 169
Chapter 63. The Mountain Called Popocatepec 170
Chapter 64. The Council Held by Moteuczoma Before Allowing Cortés to Go to Mexico 172
Chapter 65. On What Occurred to Cortés Between Cholola and Mexico 174
Chapter 66. On the Admirable Reception Given Cortés by King Moteuczoma 180
Chapter 67. How King Moteuczoma Spoke to the Spaniards, Welcoming Them 185
Chapter 68. On the Cleanliness and Majesty of King Moteuczoma’s Physical Appearance 187
Chapter 69. On the Foot Jugglers 189
Chapter 70. On the Ball Game 191
Chapter 71. The Dances of Mexico 192
Chapter 72. The [LdeG: Many] Women that King Moteuczoma Had in the Palace 194
Chapter 73. The House of Birds Kept for Their Feathers 195
Chapter 74. The House of Birds for the Hunt 196
Chapter 75. The Armories 198
Chapter 76. Moteuczoma’s Gardens 199
Chapter 77. Moteuzcoma’s Court and Guard 199
Chapter 78. Everyone Pays Tribute to King Moteuczoma 200
Chapter 79. On Mexico Tenochtitlan 202
Chapter 80. The Marketplaces of Mexico 205
Chapter 81. The Temple of Mexico 209
Chapter 82. The Idols of Mexico 211
Chapter 83. The Skull Rack that the Mexica Had as a Reminder of Death 212
Chapter 84. Cortés Takes Moteuczoma Prisoner 213
Chapter 85. Moteuczoma’s Hunt 216
Chapter 86. How Cortés Destroyed the Idols of Mexico 217
Chapter 87. Cortés’s Speech to the People of Mexico About the Idols 218
Chapter 88. The Burning of Qualpopoca and Other Noblemen 220
Chapter 89. The Reason Qualpopoca Was Burned 221
Chapter 90. How Cortés Shackled Moteuczoma 221
Chapter 91. Cortés Orders a Search for Gold in Many Places 222
Chapter 92. The Imprisonment of King Cacamatzin of Tetzcoco 225
Chapter 93. Moteuczoma’s Oration to His Noblemen, Offering Himself to the King of Castile 227
Chapter 94. The Gold and Jewels Moteuczoma Gave Cortés 229
Chapter 95. How Moteuczoma Begged Cortés to Leave Mexico 230
Chapter 96. How King Moteuczoma Sent for Captain Cortés to Drive Him from the Land 231
Chapter 97. Cortés and His Men Fear Being Sacrificed 233
Chapter 98. How Diego Velázquez Sent Pánfilo de Narváez with Many People to Attack Cortés 234
Chapter 99. What Cortés Wrote to Narváez 236
Chapter 100. What Pánfilo de Narváez Told [LdeG: the Indians and] Cortés 238
Chapter 101. What Cortés Told His Men 240
Chapter 102. Cortés Pleads with Moteuczoma 241
Chapter 103. The Imprisonment of Pánfilo de Narváez 242
Chapter 104. The Death Toll from Smallpox 245
Chapter 105. The Mexica Rebel Against the Spaniards 246
Chapter 106. The Reasons for the Rebellion 247
Chapter 107. The Mexica Threaten the Spaniards 249
Chapter 108. The Dire Straits in Which the Mexica Placed Our People 251
Chapter 109. The Death of Moteuczoma 252
Chapter 110. The Fighting Between Them 254
Chapter 111. The Mexica Refuse the Truces Proposed by Cortés 256
Chapter 112. How Cortés Fled Mexico 258
Chapter 113. The Battle at Otumba 261
Chapter 114. The Welcome Given the Spaniards in Tlaxcala 264
Chapter 115. What the Soldiers Petitioned Cortés 265
Chapter 116. Oration in Response to the Official Petition 267
Chapter 117. The War at Tepeaca 268
Chapter 118. How the People of Huacachola299 Submitted to Cortés After Killing the Colhuaque 270
Chapter 119. LdeG: The Capture of Itzocan 272
Chapter 120. The Great Authority Cortés Held over the Indians 274
Chapter 121. The Brigantines Cortés Built, and the Spaniards He Assembled to Fight Mexico 275
Chapter 122. On Captain Cortés’s Pronouncement to His Men 277
Chapter 123. Cortés Addresses the Tlaxcalteca 279
Chapter 124. How Cortés Took Tetzcoco 280
Chapter 125. The Battle of Iztacpalapan 283
Chapter 126. The Spaniards Sacrificed at Tetzcoco 285
Chapter 127. How the Brigantines Were Brought to Tetzcoco by the Tlaxcalteca 287
Chapter 128. On Cortés’s First View of Mexico in the Company of Friends and Three Hundred Spaniards 289
Chapter 129. An Account of the War Cortés Waged on the Province of Yacapichtlan 294
Chapter 130. The Dangers to Our People on Taking Two Peaks, and What Happened Next 297
Chapter 131. On Cortés’s Battle to Conquer Xochimilco and Its Towns 301
Chapter 132. On the Canal Cortés Built from Tetzcoco to the Lake to Bring the Brigantines to the Water, and Other Things 306
Chapter 133. LdeG: Cortés’s Army at the Siege of Mexico 309
Chapter 134. The Battle and Victory of the Brigantines over the Acales 311
Chapter 135. How Cortés Lay Siege to Mexico 314
Chapter 136. The First Skirmish in Mexico 315
Chapter 137. The General Damage and Burning of Houses 318
Chapter 138. On the Diligence of Quauhtemoc and Cortés 320
Chapter 139. How Cortés Had Two Hundred Thousand Men Surround Mexico 321
Chapter 140. What Pedro de Alvarado Did in Order to Advance 323
Chapter 141. The Mexica’s Festivities and Sacrifices over a Victory 323
Chapter 142. The (f. 114v) Conquest of Malinalco, Matlatzinco, and Other Towns 326
Chapter 143. On Cortés’s Determination to Lay Waste to Mexico 328
Chapter 144. The Hunger and Ailments that the Mexica Courageously Endured 330
Chapter 145. The Capture of Quauhtemoc 332
Chapter 146. On the Capture of Mexico 335
Chapter 147. Signs and Portents of the Destruction of Mexico 336
Chapter 148. How Quauhtemoc and Other Lords Were Tortured in Order to Reveal the Treasure at Coyoacan 337
Chapter 149. The Royal Fifth and Service from the Spoils of Mexico 338
Chapter 150. How Cazoncin,390 King of Michoacan, Surrendered to Cortés 339
Chapter 151. The Conquest of Tochtepec and Coatzacoalco by Gonzalo de Sandoval 341
Chapter 152. The Conquest of Tutepec 342
Chapter 153. The War at Coliman 343
Chapter 154. About Cristóbal de Tapia, Who Went to Mexico as Governor 344
Chapter 155. The War at Pánuco 346
Chapter 156. How Francisco de Garay Went to Pánuco with a Large Fleet 348
Chapter 157. The Death of Adelantado Francisco de Garay 350
Chapter 158. The Pacification of Pánuco 353
Chapter 159. The Tribulations of Licenciado Alonso Zuazo 354
Chapter 160. The Conquest of Utlatlan by Pedro de Alvarado 354
Chapter 161. The Conquest of Guatemala 356
Chapter 162. The War at Chamolla 359
Chapter 163. The Fleet Cortés Sent to Las Higueras with Cristóbal de Olid 360
Chapter 164. The Conquest of the Zapotec Region 361
Chapter 165. The Rebuilding of Mexico 361
Chapter 166. How Cortés Took Care to Enrich New Spain 364
Chapter 167. How the Bishop of Burgos Was Recused [LdeG: from Cortés’s Affairs] 365
Chapter 168. How Cortés Became Governor 366
Chapter 169. On the Conquerors 367
Chapter 170. How Cortés Carried Out the Conversion of the Indians 368
Chapter 171. The Silver Cannon that Cortés Fashioned for the Emperor 369
Chapter 172. On the Strait that Many Searched for in the Indies 371
Chapter 173. How Cristóbal de Olid Rebelled Against Hernando Cortés 372
Chapter 174. How Cortés Left Mexico to Challenge Cristóbal de Olid 374
Chapter 175. How Cortés’s Lieutenants Rebelled Against Him in Mexico 376
Chapter 176. The Imprisonment of the Factor and the Inspector 379
Chapter 177. The People Cortés Took to Las Higueras 381
Chapter 178. On the Priests of Tatahuitlapan 384
Chapter 179. The Bridge Built by Cortés 386
Chapter 180. On Apoxpalon, Lord of Yzancanac 388
Chapter 181. The Death of don Hernando de Alvarado Quauhtemoc 389
Chapter 182. How Canek Burned the Idols 392
Chapter 183. A Difficult Road Taken by Our Men 395
Chapter 184. What Cortés Accomplished in Nito 398
Chapter 185. How Cortés Arrived at Naco 401
Chapter 186. How Cortés Responded to the Conflict in Mexico 403
Chapter 187. The War at Papaica 405
Chapter 188. On Cortés’s Return to New Spain 407
Chapter 189. On the Celebrations in Mexico in Cortés’s Honor 409
Chapter 190. How the Emperor Ordered a Residencia Be Taken for Cortés 410
Chapter 191. The Death of Luis Ponce [de León] 413
Chapter 192. How Alonso de Estrada Exiled Cortés from Mexico 414
Chapter 193. How Cortés Sent Ships in Search of the Spice Islands 416
Chapter 194. How Cortés Came to Spain 418
Chapter 195. The Favors Granted to Cortés by the Emperor 421
Chapter 196. On Cortés’s Marriage 422
Chapter 197. How the Emperor Established an Audiencia in Mexico 423
Chapter 198. Cortés Returns to Mexico 425
Chapter 199. How Cortés Explored the South Sea Coast in New Spain 426
Chapter 200. What Cortés Suffered on Continuing the Exploration of the South [Sea] 428
Chapter 201. The Sea of Cortés, Also Called Bermejo, or the Crimson Sea 432
Chapter 202. On Writing in Mexico 433
Chapter 203. On the Terms for Counting 433
Chapter 204. On the Mexica Year 434
Chapter 205. On the Names of the Months 435
Chapter 206. On the Names of the Days 436
Chapter 207. On the Year Count 439
Chapter 208. On the Five Suns that Are Five Ages 441
Chapter 209. The Chichimeca 442
Chapter 210. The Acolhuaque 443
Chapter 211. The Mexica 443
Chapter 212. Why They Are Called the Acolhuaque 445
Chapter 213. On the Kings of Mexico 446
Chapter 214. On Typical Inheritance Practices 449
Chapter 215. The Swearing In and Coronation of the King 450
Chapter 216. The Nobility of a Teuctli 452
Chapter 217. What the Mexica Understand About the Soul 454
Chapter 218. On the Burial of Kings 455
Chapter 219. How the Kings of Michoacan Are Cremated for Burial 456
Chapter 220. On Children 458
Chapter 221. [LdeG: On the Enclosure of Women] 460
Chapter 222. On the Many Women 461
Chapter 223. Marriage Rites 462
Chapter 224. On Men’s Customs 464
Chapter 225. On Women’s Customs 465
Chapter 226. About the Household 466
Chapter 227. Of Wine and Drunkenness 467
Chapter 228. On Slaves 468
Chapter 229. On Judges and Laws 469
Glossary 471
Bibliography 479
Index 487

Chapter 41. The Letters from the Cabildo and the Army to the Emperor Regarding Cortés’s Appointment as Governor

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