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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…

said he knew. But he had already erred and did not know where we were nor where the harbor was. The brigantine was ordered to find the harbor, and if unable, to cross back to Havana to look for the ship that Álvaro de la Cerda had, and to return to…

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

and a notary named Jerónimo de Alániz. He told us that he wanted to go inland while the ships sailed the coast until they arrived at the harbor, which the pilots said and believed was very near there, on the way to the River of Palms. And he asked us…

reasons he said the Governor should go along the coast until he arrived at the harbor, and that the other ships with the other people should go the same route until they arrived at the same harbor.

Everyone there thought it fitting to do this,…

he and the others risked and to endure what he and the others would endure rather than to take charge of the ships and give anyone cause to say that I was staying out of fear, since I was opposed to entering, and thus have my honor doubted, for I…