Note 51 — Chapter III · RETURN OF GRIJALVA. A NEW EXPEDITION ORGANIZED. 1518.
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‘Que partirian,’ says Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 13, ‘entre todos tres la ganancia del oro, y plata, y joyas, de la parte que le cupiesse á Cortés,’ and also, growls Las Casas, ubi supra—knowledge of the facts as yet being but rumor—what Cortés could steal from the king and the governor was subject to division, beside what he would rob from the natives.