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about a hundred crowns value, offering to become his Majefty's fubjeds. 

 The having afcertained the fituation of the mines was matter of great 

 fatisfadion to Cortes. Umbria defcribed the country in which he had 

 been as very rich and populous, and indeed he and his companions 

 feemed to have returned no way the worfe for their journey, and Cortes 

 intended that it fhould be fo, in order to make up their former dif- 

 ferences. 



Diego de Ordas reported that he had paffed through very populous 

 diftridts, and had been univerfally well received; that he had met with 

 bodies of the troops of Montezuma on the frontiers, of whofe outrages 

 the inhabitants made heavy complaints, for which Dc Ordas feverely 

 reprehended the military chiefs, threatening 'them with the punifhment 

 of the lord of Nauhtlan. Proceeding towards the river he was hof- 

 pitably received, by the caciques and inhabitants of the neighbouring 

 country. On founding the mouth of the river they found three fathom 

 water at low-tide, in the fhalloweft part, and within the bar, w^ater 

 fufficient for large fliips, it ftill deepening as they went higher up. He 

 alfo found a place fit for a naval e'flablifhment, where the natives came 

 to him, and offered themfelves as vaffals to his Majefly, complaining 

 bitterly of Montezuma and his officers ; they alfo pointed out to our 

 people the place, where, in a late adtion they had killed many of his 

 troops, and which they had in confequence named "Cuilonemequi," that 

 is to fay the place of the flaughter of the Mexicans, giving them a moft 

 opprobrious epithet. He further reprefented the foil of the country as 

 fit for cattle and tillage, and the port as well fituated for trade with 

 Cuba, St. Domingo, and Jamaica, but difadvantageous in regard to its 

 diftancc from Mexico, and the Moraffes in its neighbourhood. Pizarro 

 returned from Tuftepeque with gold in grains to the value of a thoufand 

 crowns. He related how he afcended into the mountains inhabited by 

 the Chinantecans, who fallied out under arms, and refufed to fufier the 

 Mexicans to come among them, vowing that they would kill them all 

 if they attempted it ; but our people were admitted willingly, and they 

 there obtained gold in its native ftate with a rough furface. Pizarro 



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