PREFACE. 



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enables them, to detect important mistakes will be kind enough to 

 point them out candidly and clearly, I will gladly correct such serious 

 faults if another edition should ever be required by an indulgent 

 public. 



BRANTZ MAYER. 



Baltimore, August, 1850. 



AUTHORITIES USED IN THE PREPARATION OF THIS WORK. 



T. HISTORICAL. 



Cartas de Cortez ed. Lorenzana. 

 Historia Verdadera de la Conquis- 



ta de la Nueva Espana — Bernal 



Diaz. 

 Peter Martyr. 



Conquista de Mejico, by De Solis. 

 Veytia. Herrera. 

 Robertson's History of America. 

 Clavigero — Historia Antigua de 

 Mejico. 



Prescott's History of the Conquest 



of Mexico. 

 Cavo y Bustamante — Tres Siglos 



de Mejico. 

 Alaman — Disertaciones sobre la 



Historia de Mejico. 

 Father Gage's America. 

 Ternaux-Compans's History of the 



Conquest. 

 Recopilacion de las leyes de las 



Indias. 



Mendez — Observaciones sobre las 

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N. American Review, vol. XIX. 



Transactions of the American 

 Ethnological Society, in the Ar- 

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 latin. 



Researches, Philosophical and An- 

 tiquarian, concerning the Abo- 

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 J. H. McCulloh. 



Pesquisia contra Pedro de Alva- 

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Lives of the Viceroys in the Liceo 

 Mejicano. 



Notas y esclarecimientos a. la his- 

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 por Jose F. Ramirez. — 2d vol. of 

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 desde 1808, hasta 1830. 



Don Vicente Pazo's Letters on 

 the United Provinces of South 

 America. 



Robinson's Memoirs of the Mexi- 

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Foote's History of Texas. 



Tejas in 1836. 



Memorias para la Historia de la 

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Forbes's California. 



Greenhow's Oregon and California. 



American State Papers. 



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Dr. Dunham's History of Spain 

 and Portugal. 



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Constituciones de Mejico y de los 

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Thirteen octavo volumes of docu- 

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 with Mexico, collected by my- 

 self. 



Tributo a la Verdad, — Vera Cruz 

 1847. 



