Note 90 — Chapter V · SAILING OF THE EXPEDITION. 1518-1519.
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In his memorial to the emperor in 1542, Cortés relates this enforced transaction quite at length. Learning that his stock of the week had been seized, Hernan Dalonso seeks Cortés and complains, with tears in his eyes, whereupon he receives the gold chain, ‘de unos abrojos.’ Cortés, Escritos Sueltos, 310-11; Col. Doc. Inéd., iv. 221.