Note 971 — Chapter XXIX · KING-MAKING AND CONVERTING. October-December, 1520.
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Said to have been named Francisco Eguia. Sahagun, Hist. Conq., i. 39, 66, and Chimalpain, Hist. Conq., i. 278. Herrera writes that many assumed the malady to have been one of the periodical scourges that used to fall on the country. ‘Y el no auer tocado a los Castellanos, parece que trae aparencia de razon.’ dec. ii. lib. x. cap. iv. But it appears to have been wholly a new disease to the natives.