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Notes 
Notes for Part L, Section 2. 
1 Thirteen brigantines were launched by Cortés with fitting ceremonies on Lake 
Texcoco on Sunday, Apr. 28, 1521. Twelve of these vessels aided materially in the 
siege of Mexico City. F. A. MacNutt, Fernando Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico, 
1485-1547 (New York, 1909), pp. 337 ff. 
2 Castañeda, the chronicler of the Coronado expedition, mentions a Juan Alemán, who 
“ lived in Mexico “ Relación de la Jornada de Cibola compuesta por Pedro de Cas¬ 
tañeda de Nagera”, in G. P. Winship, The Coronado Expedition, loe. cit., p. 434. 
3 Reference is here made to Francis I. of France, who waged war against Charles V. 
of Spain at intervals from 1522 until 1544. 
4 In 1527 Juan de Ampues founded the first permanent settlement in Venezuela; later 
the province was for a time turned over to the Welser family of Germany as a proprie¬ 
tary grant. B. Moses, The Spanish Dependencies in South America, I. 57-79 and 29-45. 
5 Santa Marta, in present Colombia, was founded by Rodrigo de Bastidas from Santo 
Domingo as a base on July 29, 1525 (Moses, op. cit., p. 46). 
6 Reference is evidently made to Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, who arrived in New 
Spain in 1535. 
7 The land of Cibola, or New Mexico and adjacent territory. 
8 Alonso de Avila was a member of a commission sent by Cortés in June, 1522, to 
represent him at the court of Charles V. With them the members carried choice jewels 
and treasures for the king. Soon after passing the Azores the fleet bearing the com¬ 
mission was attacked by French corsairs and Avila, who had been intrusted with most 
of the treasure, was captured and taken prisoner to France. The treasure captured 
with him thus fell into the hands of Charles V.’s bitterest rival, Francis I. of France. 
See Bancroft, History of Mexico, II. 83. 
9 The Chichimecas of Nueva Galicia. 
10 Luis Marin was a lieutenant of Cortés stationed at Espíritu Santo, near the mouth 
of the Coatzacoalcos River. In 1524 he made a spectacular but unsuccessful campaign 
into Chiapas. See Bancroft, History of Mexico, pp. 35 and 128; and Bancroft, Central 
America, II. 215 if. 
11 Don Luis de Castilla was a lieutenant of Cortés who was sent to occupy and hold 
Jalisco, or the region south of the Tololotlan River, at the time of the founding of 
Nueva Galicia by Ñuño de Guzmán (Bancroft, Mexico, II. 369-370). 
12 This was in 1535. See p. 9 of the Introduction, this volume. 
13 The final campaign against the Moors in Spain, ending with the fall of Granada in 
1492. 
14 The Chontales lived in Tabasco. H. H. Bancroft, The Native Races (San Fran¬ 
cisco, 1882), I. 645. 
15 For details of Alvarado’s explorations see Lowery, Spanish Settlements within the 
Present Limits of the United States, 1513-1561, pp. 312-316, and references cited there. 
16 Nombre de Dios became, after 1519, the northern terminus of the road crossing 
the Isthmus of Panamá from Panamá City. 
17 Cartagena, in the present Colombia, was founded by Pedro de Heredia on January 
21, 1533, with colonists enlisted for the most part in Spain (Moses, op. cit., I. 53). 
18 See note 5, above. 
19 Reference is made to the naval expedition under Hernando de Alarcon. See Intro¬ 
duction, this volume, pp. 12, 13. 
20 For the career of Cabeza de Vaca after leaving New Spain in 1536 see Bandelier, 
Introduction, in The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, pp. xi-xii. 
21 Cortés did not receive the title of Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca until eight years 
after the capture of Mexico City. 
22 Another name for Mexico-Tenochtitlán. 
23 Reference is made to the return of Pedro de Alvarado from Spain to Honduras 
and Guatemala in 1539. See Bancroft, Central America, II. 203-205. 
24 Evidently the modern Golfo Dulce in eastern Guatemala which opens into the Gulf 
of Honduras. 
