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CONTENTS

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I How we discovered Yucatan 1
II How the Governor of Cuba ordered another fleet sent out, and what happened 15
III How Diego Velasquez petitioned the king of Spain to grant him commission to conquer, settle and apportion land; and we came again with a new fleet with Cortes as captain 34
IV How we found the Spaniard, Aguilar, slave to a cacique; and what happened at Tabasco 47
V Of reaching San Juan de Ulua, and what Montezuma did for and against us 66
VI How suspicion and dissent arose; how we chose Cortes captain general and chief justice, and founded Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz 75
VII Our varying fortunes with the Totonacs of Cempoala and Quiahuitztlan; and of our letters to his majesty the king of Spain 86
VIII How, having settled to go to Mexico, we destroyed all our ships and marched across the mountains; and how after fierce battles we came to peace with the people of Tlaxcala 104
IX Telling how kind the Tlaxcalans were, and what happened to us afterwards at Cholula; and also in what an adventure the clever Donna Marina found herself 125