Note 643 — Chapter XX · THE CUBAN GOVERNOR IN PURSUIT. 1519-1520.
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Cortés intimates that a friar carried this message, and that one of the questions was the nationality of the expedition. Cartas, 115. The friar appears to have carried a later message. Gomara assumes that Cortés already knew who the commander was, and offered his friendship. Hist. Mex., 142.