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CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I | How we discovered Yucatan | 1 |
| II | How the Governor of Cuba ordered another fleet sent out, and what happened | 15 |
| III | How Diego Velasquez petitioned the king of Spain to grant him commission to conquer, settle and apportion land; and we came again with a new fleet with Cortes as captain | 34 |
| IV | How we found the Spaniard, Aguilar, slave to a cacique; and what happened at Tabasco | 47 |
| V | Of reaching San Juan de Ulua, and what Montezuma did for and against us | 66 |
| VI | How suspicion and dissent arose; how we chose Cortes captain general and chief justice, and founded Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz | 75 |
| VII | Our varying fortunes with the Totonacs of Cempoala and Quiahuitztlan; and of our letters to his majesty the king of Spain | 86 |
| VIII | How, having settled to go to Mexico, we destroyed all our ships and marched across the mountains; and how after fierce battles we came to peace with the people of Tlaxcala | 104 |
| IX | Telling how kind the Tlaxcalans were, and what happened to us afterwards at Cholula; and also in what an adventure the clever Donna Marina found herself | 125 |
