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Rh corn, fruits and quails, and asked Cortez to leave with them a teacher who could instruct them in this new religion.

Two of the natives of Yucatan had been taken to Cuba by Grijalva, and through them it appeared that several Christian captives were somewhere on the mainland. Cortez sent a ship after these men, and one of them was rescued. This was Geronimo de Aguilar, afterward interpreter to the army.