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that the Indians had come out to greet them with crosses in their hands and had taken them to their houses and given them part of what they had. They slept with the Indians there that night. Stunned by this new manner, and because the Indians told…

We arrived in Mexico City on a Sunday, one day before the eve of St. James' day. There the Viceroy' and the Marqués del Valle treated us very well and welcomed us very graciously. They gave us clothing and offered us everything they had. On St.…

that we would encounter Frenchmen, who several days earlier had captured three of our ships. When we arrived at the island of Bermuda, a storm overtook us, of the sort that often overtakes all who pass through there, according to those who…

reached the galleon and the whole fleet saw that we were approaching them, they prepared for battle and came upon us, certain that we were French. When they were near, we hailed them. They discovered that we were friendly and realized that they…

Since I have given an account of everything above concerning the voyage and the entrance into and the departure from the land until my return to these kingdoms, I wish likewise to furnish a record and account of what the people and the ships who…

we departed from them. The Governor had given them orders that they should then all assemble in the ships and continue their journey directly in the direction of Panuco, always sailing along the coast and looking for the harbor the best way they…

Since I have given an account of the ships, it will be fitting for me to tell who are the people whom our Lord was pleased to deliver from these afflictions and where in these kingdoms they are from. The first is Alonso del Castillo Maldonado, a…

(In the original text, the table of contents appears at the end of the narrative.)

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Chapter One: Which Tells When the Fleet Sailed, and of the Officers and People Who Went with It

Chapter Two: How the Governor Came to the Port of…

Chapter Eighteen: How He Told Esquivel's Story

Chapter Nineteen: How the Indians Left Us

Chapter Twenty: How We Escaped

Chapter Twenty-One: How We Cured Some Sick People

Chapter Twenty-Two: How They Brought Other Sick People to Us the…

Chapter Thirty-Six: How We Had Them Build Churches in That Land

Chapter Thirty-Seven: What Happened When I Wanted to Leave

Chapter Thirty-Eight: What Happened to the Others Who Went to the Indies