History of the Conquest of New Spain , by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Edit. Porrúa (collection "Know how many ...", 5), Mexico, 1974. (Last of four parts)
As a result of its fifth expedition to the Northwest New Spain, Cortes was able to reach the point that he designated as "port and bay of Santa Cruz," the May 3, 1535.
"... and then dispatched the ships so they could return by the other soldiers and married women and horses that were waiting [in Chiametla, Sinaloa] to Captain Andrés de Tapia. And then boarded and hoisted sails, going through a temporary defeat diols threw them on a large river which they named San Pedro and San Pablo.
"And, sure the time, returned to continue his journey, and gave them another storm that I chatted to all three ships and one They went to the port of Santa Cruz, where Cortes was, and the other went aground and give the land through in Jalisco, and the soldiers who were very unhappy he would trip and many jobs, returned to New Spain others remain in Jalisco. And another ship brought to a bay called the Guayabal ... "Continue
complaints of the settlers for losses of ships, since they traveled the provisions," because they had nothing to eat, "relates Bernal Diaz, that land and the natives do not catch it corn, and are wild and police people [order, good care] ... And what they eat are fruits of those between them, and fisheries and seafood. And the soldiers with Cortes, hunger and diseases are killed twenty-three, and many more were suffering and swore to Cortes and his island and bay and discovery. "
" And [Cortes] agreed to go in person to the ship provided therein, and fifty soldiers and two blacksmiths and carpenters and three calafates looking for two other vessels. "Dio
with them" with great difficulty, and return them to dress and re-caulk the island of Santa Cruz. .. and his soldiers ate so much meat that awaited him, as were so weak from not eating anything of substance on many days ago, gave them cameras [bowel] and such condition that killed half of those remaining. "
Don Hernando persisted in getting some use of the new land, more for pride than prospects, until his wife Juana de Zúñiga he sent two boats, a of them led by Francisco de Ulloa, whom Cortes left in charge of the little colony.
"... then came all the soldiers and captains left the islands or bay they called the California ..." "And from there a few months, as Cortes was a little more sedate, sent two ships well supplied, and bread and meat and good sailors and sixty soldiers and good drivers, and was in them by Captain Francisco de Ulloa ... "
" And I said it stopped the voyages and discoveries that the Marquis did, and even heard him say many times he had spent on Armed over three hundred thousand pieces of gold ... "
The writer concludes that, after his expedition to California, the controversial Extremadura" in anything he had chance after he won the New Spain. "
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