Note 81 — Chapter V · SAILING OF THE EXPEDITION. 1518-1519.
Reading edition
The full text of the instructions is to be found in Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., xii. 225-46; Col. Doc. Inéd., i. 385, 406; Alaman, Disert., i. App. ii. 1-27, with notes, reproduced in Zamacois, Hist. Méj., ii. 791-815. The Muñoz copy, given in Prescott’s Mex., iii. 434-9, preserved the original spelling in the preamble, but the clauses are abbreviated, though Prescott does not appear to be aware of it.