sent for three ships which were at the hauen of Medelin to follow him along the coast.
Natividad de nuestra Sennora. In this yeere 1524. they came to the citie of Izancanac, where he vnderstood that the king Quahutimoc and the Mexicans that were in his companie were conspired against him and the Spanyards:[1] for the which he hanged the king and two others of the chiefe: and so came to the citie of Mazatlan, and after that to Tiaco the head citie of a prouince so called standing in the middest of a lake: and here about they began to finde the traine of the Spanyards, which they went to seeke, and so they went to Zuzullin, and at length came to the towne of Nito: from Nito Cortes with his owne companie and all the Spanyards that he found there departed to the shore or strand called La Baia de Sant Andres, and finding there a good hauen he builded a towne in that place and called it Natividad de nuestra Senora.[2]
Truxillo.
Honduras.
From hence Cortes went to the towne of
Truxillo standing in the hauen of the Honduras,
where the Spanyards dwelling there did entertaine
him well: and while he was there, there arriued a
ship which brought newes of the stirre in Mexico in
Cortes his absence: where upon he sent word to Gonsalo de
Sandoual to march with his companie from Naco to Mexico
by land toward the South sea vnto Quahutemallan,[3] because that
is the vsuall plaine and safest way, and he left as captaine in
Truxillo Fernando de Saavedra his cosen: and he himselfe went
by sea along the coast of Iucatan to Chalchicoeca now called
Sant Iuan de Vllhua, and so to Medellin, and from thence to
Mexico, where he was well receiued, hauing beene from thence
18. monethes, and had gone fiue hundred leagues trauailing
often out of his way, and enduring much hardnes.
In the yeere 1525. Francis Pizarro and Diego de Almagro went from Panama to discouer Peru standing beyond the line towarde the South, which they called Nueua Castilia.[4] The gouernour Pedro Arias would not entermeddle with this expedition, because of the euill newes which his captaine Francis Vezarra had brought.
