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قراءة كتاب The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain.
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The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain.
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THE MEMOIRS
OF THE
CONQUISTADOR BERNAL DÍAZ DEL CASTILLO
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF
CONTAINING A TRUE AND FULL ACCOUNT
OF THE
DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST
OF
MEXICO AND NEW SPAIN
TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL SPANISH BY
JOHN INGRAM LOCKHART, F.R.A.S.
AUTHOR OF "ATTICA AND ATHENS"
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. II
LONDON
J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY
MDCCCXLIV.
C. AND J. ADLARD, PRINTERS, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE.
CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
| Chap. CXXXVII. | How the whole of us marched towards Tezcuco, and what happened to us on our way there | 1 |
| Chap. CXXXVIII. | How we marched against Iztapalapan; Cortes taking along with him Alvarado and Oli; while Sandoval was left behind to protect Tezcuco | 6 |
| Chap. CXXXIX. | How ambassadors arrive in Tezcuco from three neighbouring townships, to sue for peace, and to beg forgiveness for the murder of several Spaniards who had fallen into their hands; and how Sandoval marched to Chalco and Tlalmanalco, to assist the inhabitants there against the Mexicans | 8 |
| Chap. CXL. | How Sandoval marches to Tlascalla in order to fetch the woodwork for building the brigantines, and what happened to him in a place which we termed the Moorish town | 15 |
| Chap. CXLI. | How Cortes marches against the town of Xaltocan, which lay in the midst of the lake, about twenty-four miles from Mexico, and from thence proceeds to other townships | 18 |
| Chap. CXLII. | How the captain Sandoval marches to Chalco and Tlalmanalco, and what he did there | 26 |
| Chap. CXLIII. | How we marked our slaves at Tezcuco with a red-hot iron, and received intelligence that a vessel had run into Vera Cruz | 31 |
| Chap. CXLIV. | How Cortes made a hostile excursion to all the cities and larger townships which lay round about the lake, and what happened on that occasion | 34 |
| Chap. CXLV. | The terrible thirst we suffered on our further march; our dangerous position at Xochimilco, and the many battles we fought there with the Mexicans, until our return to Tezcuco | 42 |
| Chap. CXLVI. | How we discover, on our return to Tezcuco, that a conspiracy had been set on foot by the men of Narvaez's troops to murder Cortes, and all who were of his party; of the author of this conspiracy; his punishment; and of other matters | 53 |
| Chap. CXLVII. | How Cortes issues orders to the inhabitants of all the townships in the neighbourhood of Tezcuco which were allied with us, to furnish us with arrows and copper points for the same, and what further took place at our head-quarters | 55 |
| Chap. CXLVIII. | How Cortes reviews the whole of his troops at Tezcuco; and of his further dispositions for conducting the siege of Mexico | 57 |
| Chap. CXLIX. | The manner in which Cortes selects the men who were to row the brigantines; of the commanders who were appointed to each; and of other matters | 58 |
| Chap. CL. | Of Cortes' further dispositions for the siege | 60 |
| Chap. CLI. | How Cortes assigns particular stations to the twelve brigantines, the thirteenth being considered unfit for service | 68 |
| Chap. CLII. | How the Mexicans defeated Cortes, and took sixty-two of his men prisoners, who were sacrificed to their idols; our general himself being wounded in the leg | 81 |
| Chap. CLIII. | The new plan of operation which we adopt in the siege, and how all our allies return to their several homes | 91 |