The herald., 1895-04-28

went another called Maldonado, a native
of MedellA, who was sick.
| do not mean the Maldonado who was
married to Dona Maria del Rlncon. nor
do ! mean Maldonado Broad, nor that
| other Madonado known as Azares NAL
donado, 'the fiery" who was married
to Maria Arias; and there went also one
| Marquis. VINO was called in Cuba Uaryas,
"the elephant" not that Uaryas who was
the father-in-law of Cristobal Lobal and
| there went also one of the soldiers of Cor
ties who was known as Cardenas, the
pilot, this was the same Cardenas who
once said to a comrade ''How can we take
repose while there are two Kings in
| New Span?' This was the man to
whom Cortes gave $500 to take to his wife
! and children.
s And there went besides many others
whose names | have forgotten. When Cor
ties had given them license to GO pack we
asked him why he gave it, there being
so few of us left. and he replied, to get
rid of the scandals they were continually
creating and to rid himself of their i'm
| portunites: that most of those who de-
/ sired to return had no :tomaehs for
fighting and that it was better to be
alone than in bad company" lie sent
| Pedro de Alvarado to the port to see them
embarked and told him to return imme'
dately to the camp. At the same time
he sent Diego de Ordas and Alonzo de
Mendoza, II native OF Medellin, on "A GER
tain mission to Spain, but we were not
informed as to the subjects on which
they were to confer with his majesty; and
az to what passed in Spain, Knew
nothing except that the Bishop OF Burgos,
in the presene OF Diego de Ordas, declared
coarsely that Cortes and all who had
PASSED with him from Cuba were false
traitors and | knew that Ordas replied to
him properly for all of us. Afterwards
Ordas received an encomienda OF the
! order of Santiago and for coat OF arms
the volcano which is between GuaXocingo
and Cholula. and as to his further pro-
ceedings Twill relate later on as we learned
| from a letter which was received from
| Spain.
Cortes also sent Alonzo de Avilo, who
was II Captain and contador of New
Spain, and another hidalgo named Fran
cisco Alvarez Chico in another ship to
| Santo Domingo to give an account of all
that had occurred to the royal audiencia
which was located there and to the monks
OF the order OF San Geronimo, who were
| Governors of all the islands, that they
might approve of what we had done in
| capturing NarvaeZ and in making slaves
of the Indians who had murdered Span
iards and rebelled after swearing allegi
ance to our lord the King OF Spain; and
begging of them to inform our great En-
peror thereof and to bear in mind the great
|
them and the royal audience to ntercede
for us against the i'll will of the Bishop
of Burgos, and to see justice done us. lie
also sent another ship under the COM
mand of one Soils, who after the conquest
was known as soils of the Orchard and
was son-in-law to the bachelor Ortega,
to Jamaica to buy horses.
The curious reader may ask how was IT
that without money Cortes could send
Diego de Ordas to Spain, and Alonzo de
Avilo to Santo Domingo, and Soils to ia
maica to buy horses for all those things
needed the expenditure of money. To
! this | say that the night we fled from
Mexico there was in orr quarters Il great
heap of gold, and each soldier took what
he could carry off, especially Narvaez and
those who We're on horseback. and more
over the eighty Tlascalans, who by order
of Cortes were loaded with treasure were
} among the first to cross the bridges.
And. of course, all of this was not lost.
AS for us poor soldiers, we did not COM
/ mand but were commanded, and at that
time we only thought of saving our lives
and afterwards of curing our wounds. and
| we needed not whether either much or lit
| tie OF the gold was saved. But Cortes and
some of our Captains took care of what
the Tlascalans carried off and it was also
rumored that they had stolen the portion
that belonged to those who were in Villa
Rica.
And it was with this money he sent
, messengers to Spain on his private bust
ness and others to Santo Domingo to the
royal audiencia, and others to Jamaica
to buy horses for at this time, notwith.
standing the proclamation previously
made by Cortes, each man who had any
bars OF gold kept them hidden.
Cortes ordered Francisco Orozco to re-
main aG SegurI de la From terra with twenty
sick soldiers as garrison, while he
marched with all his remaining forces tC
Tlascala. At the same time he ordered
timber to be cut to construct three brig
antines to be used on the lake in attack
ing Mexico, because we well knew now
that unless we controlled the lakes we
could do nothing against it, for to enter
as we did before by the Calzadas was tC
run the same risk over again. The cut.
ting of the timber and constructing OF
vessels was given in charge of one Mar
tin Lopez, who was good soldier and
, had served his majesty well in all the
, wars we had been engaged in, and had il
not been for HIM we could not have con-
structed the vessels then, but would have
had to lose great deal of time in send
ing to Spain for a ship builder, and per
haps none would have come.
When we arrived at Tlascala we found
to our sorrow that our great friend, thai
loyal vassal of his majesty, MassiEs
cassi had died of the smallpox. Corte
felt as though he had lost nis father ant
' he went III mourning Tor him. as die
many others of our Captains, and we al
condoled with his relatives, and ther,
being some question as to who should
succeed him, Cortes ordered that hi
legitimate son should succeed him, such
having been the desire of MASH Escassi
Bus we will leave Massi- Escassi since h
is dead and tell how Xicotengo ell Wei
e and Chinchimecatecle and the othe
| Tlascalan chiefs offered their services T.
Cortes. both in procuring the timber TO
q the brigantine and anything else he de
1 sired in the war against Mexico, an,
Cortes embraced them and thanked them
= lie then begged them to become Chris
e tians, and the god Xicotengo ell Wei
: declared that he would with a right goo,
will, and with great rejoicing and feast
j ing Padre Olmedo baptized him anc
e named him Lorenzo de Vargas.
: In very few days Martin Lopez haC
all the tlmbers for the brigantihe read,
D and had marked each piece as to wha
5 part of the brigantne it should go in. an,
$ IN this he was assisted by II soldier name'
e Andreas Nemez and an old carpenter VIII
, was called Ramirez ell Viejo. CoItes no,
4 sent to Villa Rica for irons and nail
l. which had been taken out of the ship
n which We had sunk, and for an
e chors and chains and sails and rope
and oakum; and in short for every
= thing necessary to equip ship. am
| he ordered that all the blacksmiths VIII,
e were there should come also; and he sen
4 as Captain to bring these things from