Note 719 — Chapter III
Reading edition
Oviedo, iii. 56; Las Casas, iv. 230-244; Peter Martyr, dec. iv. chap. ix.; Herrera, dec. ii. lib. 2, chaps. xiii., xv., and xxi.; Quintana, U. S., pp. 298-299; Helps, i. 389-411; Bancroft, Central America, i. 432-459; Irving, Companions, pp. 259-276. Cf. Manuel M. De Peralta, Costa Rica, Nicaragua y Panamá en el siglo XVI. (Madrid, 1883), pp. ix, 707, for documents relating to Pedrárias in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, and p. 83 for Diego Machuca de Zuazo’s letter to the Emperor, written from Granada, May 30, 1531, referring to the death of Pedrárias.