Note VII‑2 — Chapter VII · ALVARADO'S EXPEDITION TO PERU. 1531-1536.

Herrera, dec. iv. lib. x. cap. xv., and Remesal, Hist. Chyapa, 112, state that in these preparations Alvarado was provided by the emperor with a considerable amount of funds; but the adelantado in his official letters to the court, in Cartas, Squier's MSS., xix. 1-4, 13-27, while dwelling on the labor and expense these preparations involved, makes no allusion to outside aid. It is not probable, however, that a man of Alvarado's character would have fitted out this expedition purely from loyal motives or having in view only the remote contingency of the compensation to be derived from his twelfth of the profits.