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The Memoirs of the Conquistador

by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

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  1. 1Translator’s Preface
  2. 2Author’s Preface
  3. 3Conquest of Mexico and New Spain
  4. 4Chapter II — Of the Discovery of Yucatan, and the Battle We Fought…
  5. 5Chapter III — Discovery of the Coast of Campeachy
  6. 6Chapter IV
  7. 7Chapter V
  8. 8Chapter VI
  9. 9Chapter VII — The Fatigues I Had to Undergo, Until My Arrival in th…
  10. 10Chapter VIII — How Diego Velasquez, Governor of Cuba, Sent Out Anot…
  11. 11Chapter IX — How We Landed at Champoton
  12. 12Chapter X — We Continued Our Course and Ran Into Terminos Bay, as W…
  13. 13Chapter XI
  14. 14Chapter XII
  15. 15Chapter XIII — How We Arrive on the Bandera’s Stream, and Gain 1500…
  16. 16Chapter XIV — How We Came Into the Harbour of San Juan de Culua
  17. 17Chapter XV — Diego Velasquez Sends Out a Small Vessel in Quest of Us
  18. 18Chapter XVI — What Befell Us on Our Coasting Voyage Along the Tusta…
  19. 19Chapter XVII — Diego Velasquez Despatches One of His Officials to S…
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — Of Some Errors in the Work of Francisco Lopez de Go…
  21. 21Chapter XIX
  22. 22Chapter XX — Of the Designs and Plans of Hernando Cortes After He H…
  23. 23Chapter XXI
  24. 24Chapter XXII
  25. 25Chapter XXIII
  26. 26Chapter XXIV
  27. 27Chapter XXV
  28. 28Chapter XXVI — Cortes Reviews His Troops, and What Further Happened
  29. 29Chapter XXVII
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII
  31. 31Chapter XXIX
  32. 32Chapter XXX
  33. 33Chapter XXXI
  34. 34Chapter XXXII
  35. 35Chapter XXXIII
  36. 36Chapter XXXIV
  37. 37Chapter XXXV — How Cortes Assembles All the Caziques of This Provin…
  38. 38Chapter XXXVI
  39. 39Chapter XXXVII
  40. 40Chapter XXXVIII — How We Arrive With Our Vessels in San Juan de Ulu…
  41. 41Chapter XXXIX
  42. 42Chapter XL
  43. 43Chapter XLI
  44. 44Chapter XLII
  45. 45Chapter XLIII
  46. 46Chapter XLIV
  47. 47Chapter XLV
  48. 48Chapter XLVI — How We March Into Quiahuitzlan, Which Was a Town Wit…
  49. 49Chapter XLVII
  50. 50Chapter XLVIII
  51. 51Chapter XLIX
  52. 52Chapter L
  53. 53Chapter LI
  54. 54Chapter LII
  55. 55Chapter LIII — How We Arrived in Our Town of Vera Cruz, and What Ha…
  56. 56Chapter LIV
  57. 57Chapter LV
  58. 58Chapter LVI
  59. 59Chapter LVII
  60. 60Chapter LVIII
  61. 61Chapter LIX
  62. 62Chapter LX
  63. 63Chapter LXI
  64. 64Chapter LXII
  65. 65Chapter LXIII — Of the Terrible Battles We Fought With the Tlascall…
  66. 66Chapter LXIV — How We Quartered Ourselves in the Township of Tehuac…
  67. 67Chapter LXV — Of the Great Battle We Fought With the Tlascallans, a…
  68. 68Chapter LXVI
  69. 69Chapter LXVII
  70. 70Chapter LXVIII
  71. 71Chapter LXIX
  72. 72Chapter LXX
  73. 73Chapter LXXI
  74. 74Chapter LXXII — How Ambassadors Arrive in Our Camp From Motecusuma,…
  75. 75Chapter LXXIII
  76. 76Chapter LXXIV
  77. 77Chapter LXXV
  78. 78Chapter LXXVI
  79. 79Chapter LXXVII — How the Caziques Presented Their Daughters to Cort…
  80. 80Chapter LXXVIII — How Cortes Gained Some Information Respecting Mex…
  81. 81Chapter LXXIX — How Our Captain Hernando Cortes and All Our Officer…
  82. 82Chapter LXXX
  83. 83Chapter LXXXI
  84. 84Chapter LXXXII — How We Arrived in the Town of Cholulla, and the Br…
  85. 85Chapter LXXXIII
  86. 86Chapter LXXXIV — The Negotiations We Set on Foot With the Great Mot…
  87. 87Chapter LXXXV
  88. 88Chapter LXXXVI
  89. 89Chapter LXXXVII
  90. 90Chapter LXXXVIII
  91. 91Chapter LXXXIX
  92. 92Chapter XC
  93. 93Chapter XCI — Of Motecusuma’s Person, Disposition, Habits, and of H…
  94. 94Chapter XCII
  95. 95Chapter XCIII
  96. 96Chapter XCIV — Of the Battle Which the Mexican Generals Fought With…
  97. 97Chapter XCV — Of the Imprisonment of Motecusuma, and What Further H…
  98. 98Chapter XCVI
  99. 99Chapter XCVII
  100. 100Chapter XCVIII
  101. 101Chapter XCIX
  102. 102Chapter C
  103. 103Chapter CI
  104. 104Chapter CII
  105. 105Chapter CIII
  106. 106Chapter CIV
  107. 107Chapter CV
  108. 108Chapter CVI
  109. 109Chapter CVII
  110. 110Chapter CVIII
  111. 111Chapter CIX
  112. 112Chapter CX
  113. 113Chapter CXI
  114. 114Chapter CXII
  115. 115Chapter CXIII
  116. 116Chapter CXIV
  117. 117Chapter CXV
  118. 118Chapter CXVI
  119. 119Chapter CXVII — How Father Olmedo Arrived in Narvaez’s Head-Quarter…
  120. 120Chapter CXVIII
  121. 121Chapter CXIX
  122. 122Chapter CXX — How Juan Velasquez Arrives in Narvaez’s Head-Quarters…
  123. 123Chapter CXXI
  124. 124Chapter CXXII
  125. 125Chapter CXXIII
  126. 126Chapter CXXIV
  127. 127Chapter CXXV — How We All, Including Narvaez’s Troops, Hasten to Me…
  128. 128Chapter CXXVI — How the Mexicans Made War Upon Us, and the Battles…
  129. 129Chapter CXXVII
  130. 130Chapter CXXVIII — How We Come to the Determination of Leaving Mexic…
  131. 131Chapter CXXIX — How We Quartered Ourselves in the Metropolis of Tla…
  132. 132Chapter CXXX
  133. 133Chapter CXXXI
  134. 134Chapter CXXXII
  135. 135Chapter CXXXIII
  136. 136Chapter CXXXIV
  137. 137Chapter CXXXV
  138. 138Chapter CXXXVI

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