Note 674 — Chapter III
Reading edition
Irving, Companions, pp. 126-129. See Memorial que dió el bachiller Enciso de lo ejecutado por el en defensa de los Reales derechos en la materia de los indios, in Documentos inéditos, i. 441. This document contains, pp. 442-444, the celebrated requerimiento which Pedrárias was ordered to read to the natives before he seized their lands. A translation is in Bancroft, Central America, i. 397, note. It may also be found in Oviedo, iii. 28. Bancroft in the above note also indicates the depositary of the requerimiento drawn up for the use of Ojeda and Nicuesa. With regard to this Cenú expedition, see also Enciso, Suma de geografía, p. 56.