nd the Totonaque tribes 247

CHAP. XCV. Of the imprisonment of Motecusuma, and what further happened
249

CHAP. XCVI. How our general appoints Alonso Grado lieutenant of Vera
Cruz, and Sandoval alguacil-major of the same place 255

CHAP. XCVII. How we entertained and amused Motecusuma during his
confinement, and granted him permission to visit his temple 258

CHAP. XCVIII. How Cortes orders two large brigantines to be built for
the navigation of the lake of Mexico; Motecusuma begs permission to
visit his temples to offer up his prayers there; and what Cortes said to
him when he granted this permission 261

CHAP. XCIX. How our two brigantines are launched, and Motecusuma,
expressing a wish to go a hunting, sails in one of these vessels to a
river where he usually went for that purpose 263

CHAP. C. How the nephews of Motecusuma assembled the principal
personages of the empire, and formed a conspiracy to rescue the monarch
from confinement, and beat us out of the city 265

CHAP. CI. How the powerful Motecusuma, with several caziques and chief
personages of the country, declare themselves vassals of our emperor;
and of other occurrences which happened then 271

CHAP. CII. How Cortes sends out some of our men to explore the gold
mines and those rivers which wash down gold; also the harbours from the
Panuco to the Tabasco, but particularly the river Guacasualco 273

CHAP. CIII. How the officers whom Cortes had despatched to the gold
mines and the river Guacasualco returned to Mexico 274

CHAP. CIV. How Cortes desired the powerful Motecusuma to order all the
caziques of the empire to bring in the tribute of gold due to our
emperor 277

CHAP. CV. How all the gold presented by Motecusuma, and collected from
the different townships, was divided; and what happened to one of our
soldiers on the occasion 280

CHAP. CVI. Of the high words which arose between Velasquez de Leon and
our treasurer Gonzalo Mexia on account of the gold which was missing
from the heap, and how Cortes put an end to t