88 
Notes 
all three of these famous expeditions. Before his death Bernal Diaz wrote his famous 
Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva España. This was finally published 
in 1632 by a Mercedite friar, Alonso Remón by name. “ From that time ”, says the late 
and illustrious Mexican historian, Genaro García, “ this book was universally recog¬ 
nized as the most complete and trustworthy chronicle of the conquest of New Spain.” 
The book has passed through at least five editions in Spanish and translations of it 
have been made into English, French, and German. A more perfect copy, made from the 
original manuscript, still preserved at Guatemala City, was published by Genaro García 
in 1904; of this an English translation, with full notes, was made by Alfred P. Maudsley 
and published by the Hakluyt Society of London ( Hakluyt Society Publications, second 
series, vols. XXIII.-XXV., XXX., and XL.). See G. García (ed.), “Introducción” to 
the Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva España por Bernal Díaz del Cas¬ 
tillo uno de sus Conquistadores: Unica Edición hecha según el Códice Autógrafo, 2 
vols. (Mexico, 1904), pp. ix-xcvi. 
42 Evidently the Coatzacoalcos River region. 
43 These Indians lived in Zacatecas and San Luís Potosí (Bancroft, Native Races, I. 
572,614). 
44 Castañeda held half of the Indians of the town of Teguacán in encomienda (see 
royal cédula of 1573 which follows). 
