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was due to him; but fuch was his natural plainnefs of manners, that he 

 never at any time hked to be called otherwife than fimply, Cortes, and 

 truly it was a great and noble name in itfelf, and as much revered as 

 Csefar's and Pompey's in the time of the Romans, Hannibal's among 

 the Carthaginians, or in our time that of Gonzalo Hernandez, or the mofl: 

 valiant and ever invincible Diego Garcia de Paredes. Ordaz aUb in- 

 formed Cortes of the report that was circulated through Mexico, of its 

 being his intention to put the fador to death privately in jail; and he 

 warned him of the man being powerfully patronifed. 



The treafurer Eftrada at this time married off two of his daughters ^ 

 one to Jorge de Alvarado, another to Don Luis de Guzman fon to the 

 Count De Caftellar. It was then fettled that Pedro de Alvarado (hould 

 go to Caftille to folicit the government of Guatimala,^ and he in the 

 mean time fent his brother Jorge to that province with a force of our 

 allies of different nations, to reduce it. The governor alfo about that 

 period fent a force againff the province of Chiapa under the command 

 of Don Juan Enriquez de Guzman, a near relation of the duke of Me- 

 dina Sidonia; another to the province of Tabafco under Balthafar Offo- 

 rio, and a third againff the Zapotecan mountaineers under Alonzo de 

 Herrera, one of our veterans. 



After lingering for eight months, the governor Marcos de Aguilar 

 gave up the ghoft, leaving by teftament the treafurer Alonzo de Eftrada 

 his lucceffor. At this time, the council of Mexico and many principal 

 Spaniards were felicitous that Cortes (hould be affociated with the trea- 

 furer in the government, the latter appearing entirely incompetent at the 

 prefent jundure, more particularly for the following reafon. Nuno 

 de Guzman who had foj two, years governed the province of Panuco, 

 was a man ofa moft furious and tyrannical difpofition, arbitrarily extend- 

 ing the bounds of his jurifdid:ion, and putting to death all who dared 

 to oppofe his will. Thus Pedro Gonzalez de Truxillo, a perfon of no- 

 ble condition, afferting with truth that his diftrid: was a dependency of 



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