hat dispute 282

CHAP. CVII. How Motecusuma offers one of his daughters in marriage to
Cortes, who accepts her, and pays her the attention due to her high
station 284

CHAP. CVIII. How the powerful Motecusuma acquaints Cortes that it is
requisite for his safety to quit Mexico, with the whole of his men, as
all the caziques and papas were upon the point of rising up in arms to
destroy us all, in compliance with the advice given them by their gods:
the steps which Cortes took upon this news 286

CHAP. CIX. How the governor of Cuba, Velasquez, in all haste fits out an
armament against us, the command of which he gives to Pamfilo de
Narvaez, who was accompanied by the licentiate Lucas Vazquez de Aillon,
auditor of the royal court of audience at St. Domingo 289

CHAP. CX. How Narvaez arrives with the whole of his flotilla in the
harbour of San Juan de Ulua, and what happened upon this 290

CHAP. CXI. How Pamfilo Narvaez despatches five persons to Sandoval, the
commandant of Vera Cruz, with summons to surrender up the town to him
293

CHAP. CXII. How Cortes, after he had gained every information respecting
the armament, wrote to Narvaez, and several of his acquaintances who had
come with him, and particularly to Andreas du Duero, private secretary
to Velasquez; and of other events 296

CHAP. CXIII. The high words which arose between the auditor Vazquez de
Aillon and Narvaez, who orders him to be seized and sent back prisoner
to Spain 298

CHAP. CXIV. Narvaez marches, with the whole of his troops, to Sempoalla;
his proceedings there; and how we in Mexico determine to march against
him 300

CHAP. CXV. How the powerful Motecusuma inquires of Cortes whether it was
really his intention to march out against Narvaez, though the latter's
troops were double the number of ours 302

CHAP. CXVI. How we determined once more to despatch father Olmedo to
Narvaez's head-quarters, and what we commissioned him to say 306

CHAP. CXVII. How father Olmedo arrived in Narvaez's h