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History of Mexico, Volume 1, 1516-1521

Note 546 — Chapter XVIII · DOUBLY REFINED DEALINGS. 1519-1520.

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Bernal Diaz names them, ‘Barriẽtos, y Heredia el viejo, y Escalona el moço, y Cervantes el chocarrero,’ and says that Cortés, displeased at soldiers being left to raise fowl and cacao, sent Alonso Luis to recall them. Hist. Verdad., 82; Herrera, dec. ii. lib. ix. cap. i. He is evidently mistaken, as shown by his own later text, for Cortés himself states that he sought to form plantations in that direction. The recall was made later and for a different reason.

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