The True History of the Conquest of New Spain

Book X. The Return to the Valley: 137. How we marched with all our army on the way to the city of Texcoco; 138. How we went to Iztapalapa with Cortés; 139. How three pueblo in the neighbourhood of Texcoco sent to ask for peace and pardon; 140. How Gonzalo de Sandoval went to Tlaxcala to fetch the timber for the launches; Book XI. Preliminary Expeditions: 141. How our captain Cortés went on an expedition to the peublo of Saltocan; 142. How Captain Gonzalo de Sandoval went to Chalco and Tlamanalco with the whole of his army; 143. How the slaves were branded in Texcoco; 144. How our Captain Cortés went on an expedition; 145. About the great thirst that we endured on the march; 146. How when we arrived at Texcoco it had been settled among certain of those persons who came with Narvaez to kill Cortés; Book XII. The Siege and Fall of Mexico: 147. How Cortés ordered all the pueblos which were friendly to us in the neighbourhood of Texcoco to make a store of arrows; 148. How a review was held in the city of Texcoco; 149. How Cortés sought the rowers who were needed to row the launches; 150. How Cortés ordered three divisions to go and invest the great city of Mexico; 151. How Cortés ordered the twelve launches to be stationed; 152. About the battles and encounters that we went through; 153. About the way in which we fought, and the many attacks that the Mexicans made on us; 154. How Cortés sent three Mexican chieftains to beg Guatemoc to make peace; 155. How Guatemoc had arranged with the provinces of Matalzingo and Tulapa and Malinalco and other pueblos to come to his assistance; 156. How Gonzalo de Sandoval with twelve launches entered into the part of the city where Guatemoc was and took him provinces; 157. What Cortés ordered to be done; Book XIII. The Settlement: 158. How letters reached Cortés that a certain Cristobál de Tápia had arrived at the Port of Vera Cruz; 159. How Cortés and the King's officers decided to send to His Majesty all the gold that had accrued; 160. How Gonzalo de Sandoval arrived with his army at a pueblo called Tuxtepec; 161. How Pedro de Alvarado went to Tututepec to found a town; 162. How Francisco de Garay came from Jamaica; 163. How the Licentiate Alonzo de Zuazo came in a caravel to New Spain; 164. How Cortés sent Pedro de Alvarado to the province of Guatemala; 165. How Cortés sent a fleet to pacify and conquer the provinces of Higueras and Honduras; 166. How those of us who had settled at Coatzacoalcos were constantly going about pacifying the provinces which revolted against us; 167. How our proctors who were in Spain challenged the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Burgos; 168. How Pánfilo de Narvaez and Cristobál de Tápia and a pilot named Gonzalo de Umbria, and another soldier named Cárdenas appeared before His Majesty; 169. What Cortés was engaged upon after he was invested with the government of New Spain; 170. How Captain Hernando Cortés sent to Castile to His Majesty eighty thousand pesos in gold and silver; 171. How there came to the Port of Vera Cruz twelve Franciscan Friars; 172. How Cortés wrote to His Majesty and sent him thirty thousand pesos de oro; 173. How when Cortés learnt that Cristobál de Olid had rebelled he sent against him a captain named Francisco de Las Casas; Appendix; Index.