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place whereby no more was faid about the order j but it was a very bad 

 tranlaftion on the part of Cortes. 



The officers of Narvaez thought this a good jun6lure to renew 

 their foiicitations to Cortes for permiffion to return to Cuba. After 

 much trouble and many efforts on their part, Cortes affented, promif- 

 ing that on the conqueft of Mexico, he would give his friend Andres 

 de Duero much more wealth than he had ever polTeffed. He made fi- 

 jnilar offers alfo to the other captains, efpecially to Auguftin Bcrmudez. 

 Thofe who were determined to return he ordered to be provided with 

 whatever was neceffary for their voyage, fuch as maiz, dogs faltcd, 

 fowls, &c, and giving them one of the beft fhips in the harbour, he 

 wrote letters by them to his wife Donna Catalina Xuarez -Marcayda, 

 and to his brother in law Juan Xuarez, informing them of all that had 

 happened j and he alfo tranfmitted to them by the fame opportunity 

 fome bars and ornaments of gold. The following perfons were among 

 thofe who returned to Cuba at this time, with their pockets welt lined 

 after all their difafters. Andres de Duero, Auguftin Bermudez, Juan 

 Buono de Quexo, Bernardino de Quefada, Francifco Velafquez the 

 hump backed, a relation of the governor of Cuba, Gonzalo Carrafco 

 who returned afterwards to this country and lives in La Puebla, Melchor 

 Velafco, and one Ximenes who lives in Guaxaca: he went for his fons; 

 alfo the conimendador Leon de Cervantes who went to bring over his 

 daughters ; after the conqueft of Mexico he married them to very ho- 

 nourable connexions; one Maldonado alfo of Medellin, an invalid; not 

 he who married Donna Maria del Rincon, nor the big Maldonado, nor 

 the other of that name whom we called Alvaro Maldonado "the fierce,"" 

 who was married to a lady named Maria Arias ; there was alfo one 

 Vargas whom we nicknamed "the gallant;" I do not mean the Vargas 

 who was father in law to Chriftoval Lobo ; Cardenas the pilot alfo went; 

 it was he who talked of the two kings ; Cortes gave him three hundred 

 crowns for his wife and children ; with many others whom it would 

 be too prolix to enumerate. When Cortes was remonftrated with on 

 letting fo many quit us in our weak ftate he replied, that he did it partly 



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