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for Truxillo, leaving Godoy in the command at Puerto de Cavallos., 

 with forty Spaniards, which was all that remained of the fettlers who 

 came with Avila, and thofe newly arrived from the Ifland of Cuba. 



For fome time Godoy maintained himfelf in the neighbouring 

 country, but as his men were continually dropping off by difeafe, the 

 Indians began to defpife and negle<ft them, and in a fliort time they loft 

 by licknefs and famine above half their number, and three of them de- 

 ferted and joined Sandoval. Such was the refuk of the colonization of 

 Puerto de Cavallos. Sandoval, by different expeditions to the neigh- 

 bouring diftridls, named Cirimongo, Acalaco, Quizmitan, and four 

 others, and by judicious meafurcs, brought the whole of the country 

 to peace and fubjedion, all around Naco, and as far as Godoy 's fet- 

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After fix days fail Cortes arrived at the port of Truxillo. This 

 place had been colonized by Francifco de las Cafas, but there were alfo 

 amongft them many of the mutineers who had ferved under De Gli, 

 and who had b&n banifhed from Panuco. All thefe, confcious of their 

 guilt, waited on Cortes upon his arrival, to fupplicate his pardon for 

 their offences. This Cortes granted them ; he alfo continued thofe who 

 had been appointed to offices, and put at the head of all thofe provinces 

 as captain general, his relation Saavedra. Cortes having now fummon- 

 ed the chiefs and priefts of the Indians, made an harangue to them, 

 wherein he told them of the objed: of his coming thither, which 

 was, to induce them to quit the unnatural and cruel pradices of their 

 falfe religion, and to embrace the true one. He alfo dwelt upon the 

 power and dignity of his Majefty the Emperor Don Carlos, to whom 

 he required their fubmiffion. This together with the holy exhortations 

 of our reverend fathers being explained to thefe people they readily pro- 

 mifed to obey him, in becoming his Majefty's vaffals; whereupon 

 Cortes fignified to them, that they fliould provide the fettlement with 

 all articles of food, efpecially fifh, of which there was a great plenty 

 in the fea about the Iflands of Los Guanajes, and alfo he delired them 



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