Wetting Bed Due To Flu

History of the Conquest of New Spain , by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Ed Porrúa (collection "Know how many ...", 5), Mexico, 1974.

(Second of four parts)

Synopsis: He told the reporter that Cortes did supply in Tehuantepec to the two ships under the command of Becerra and Grijalva, issuing in search of Hurtado de Mendoza and new lands and islands:

"And after they left the port of Teguantepeque, the first night rose a contrary wind separated the two ships from each other, never to be seen, could well be back together for good weather then, unless Hernando de Grijalva, not being under the hand of Becerra, took to sea and then departed with his ship, because Becerra was very arrogant and ill-conditioning ... and also turned away because he wanted to win fame Grijalva himself if he found some good island and at sea Then he put in more than two hundred leagues and discovered an island he named San Tome and was depopulated.
"Let Grijalva and his defeat and return to tell what happened to the pilot Ortuño Becerra [Fortun] Jiménez. Is that they quarreled on the trip, and as Becerra was unpopular with all the other soldiers who were on the ship, Ortuño concertóse other Bizkaia sailors and soldiers with whom he had had words Becerra and give it a night and killing him, and so did, that sent him to sleep while Becerra and other soldiers, and were it not for two Franciscan friars who were in that army, who got to parteth more evil exists.
"The pilot Jiménez with his teammates picked up the ship and, I pray for the friars, they were to take the land of Jalisco and the religious and other injuries, and gave Jiménez candle and went to an island which he named Santa Cruz, where they said they had pearls and was populated by Indians savages.
[Bernal suffers a confusion here, because it really was Cortes who won later that name to the "island" discovered.]
"And as he jumped ashore and the natives of that bay or island were a war, killed, that but the sailors were not left in the vessel.
"And they saw that all were dead Jalisco returned to port with the ship and gave news of what happened and certified that the land was good and well populated, and then was this new to Mexico. When Cortes knew there was great despite happened, and as a man of heart, lay not in such event, agreed not to ship captains, but go over it in person.
"And at that time the yard had already taken three good sized ships in the port of Teguantepeque, and as they told him he had killed Pearl where Jimenez, and because he always had a presentiment of discovery in the South Sea large Poblazón was willing to go to people because they had capitulated to the Most Serene Empress Isabella ..., and the Royal Council of the Indies ... "

(next week: Cortés decided to personally take his fifth expedition to northwestern New Spain, what was the meeting of the land discovered by Jimenez and his mutineers.)