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Bifhop of Burgos, whofe enmity was manifeft in his having prohibi- 

 ted the Cafa de Contrad:ation of Seville from fending us any fuppHes. 

 Cortes alfo left nothing in his inkftand which could be of fervice to our 

 interefts, for he wrote a memorial of twenty one pages, which I read, 

 and certify to be to the full tenor and effedt of what I have related. He 

 alfo farther petitioned, that his Majefty would permit him to go to the 

 ifland of Cuba, to apprehend Velafquez the governor thereof, and fend 

 him as a prifoner to Caftille, for the injuries done by him to the gene- 

 ral fervice, more efpecially in fending an order to put Cortes to 

 death. 



Our agents failed from the port of Vera Cruz, on the twentieth of 

 December one thoufand five hundred and twenty two, without any par- 

 ticular occurrence on the voyage to the Terceras, except the breaking 

 loofe of two tigers, who wounded fome failors, and their being obliged 

 to kill the other on account of his ferocity. At the Ifland of Tercera 

 Captain Anthonio de Quinones loft his life. He was very amorous, 

 and in a quarrel concerning a lady there, as he piqued himfelf upon his - 

 valor a duel enfued, in which he received a fword wound on the head, 

 and died in three days. Thus the bufinefs remained in the hands o,f 

 Alonzo de Avila only. As he purfued his voyage to Europe, he fell in 

 with a French privateer commanded by Juan Florin, who made prize 

 of him, his fliip, and all the treafure. This captain took another fliip 

 from St. Domingo with a valuable cargo of fugar, and hides, as alfo 

 twenty thoufand crowns of gold, and a quantity of pearls, fo that he 

 returned' to France very rich, and made great prefents to the King, and 

 alfo to the admiral of France, the people whereof were aftonifhed at the 

 magnificence of what we fent to our great Emperor. The King of 

 France faid that the wealth we fupplied was fufl?cient alone to enable 

 our Monarch to wage war againft him, and yet Peru was not at this 

 time known. It is alfo reported that the King fent to our Emperor, to 

 fay, that he and the King of Portugal had divided the world between 

 them, without giving him a Oiare, and that he defired to fee the will 

 of our father Adam, to know if he had made them exclufively his heirs. 



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