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Itinerario de Lisola de Iuchatan nouamente ritrouata per il signor Gioan de Grisalue, etc. By far the best edition is that given with a Spanish translation by Icazbalceta, in his Col. Doc., i. 281-308, printed in Mexico in 1858. Next is the account by Bernal Diaz, who, like the chaplain, accompanied the expedition, thus giving us narratives by eye-witnesses at once from ecclesiastical and secular stand-points. The statements of Gomara, ''Hist. Ind., 56-8, and Hist. Mex.,'' 9-11, must be taken with allowance. Worse still are the memorials of the relatives of Velazquez to sovereign majesty, such as that found in Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., x. 80-6, which are little better than tissues of misstatements and exaggerations. Solis, ''Hist. Mex.,'' i. 24-40, gives a fair, full, and graphic statement of particulars. The Instruccion que dió el adelantado Diego Velazquez á Hernan Cortés, in Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., xii. 226-51, also important, as furnishing original collateral light. Las Casas, ''Hist. Ind.,'' iv. 16, 421-4, though full, is specially inaccurate and weak, not only in his facts, but in his deductions. Nor is Peter Martyr, dec. iv. cap. iii., any stronger. Clavigero, Storia Mess., iii. 4-6, De Rebus Gestis Ferdinandi Cortesii, in Icazbalceta, Col. Doc., i. 341-6, and ''Landa, Rel. de Yuc, 21, are mediocre; and Herrera,'' dec. ii. lib iii. cap. i. and ix., is quite full and very valuable. Cogolludo, ''Hist. Yucathan,'' 8-16, gives a fair résumé, but a far better one is Torquemada's, i. 351-7. Prescott's account, Mex., i. 224-9, is meagre and imperfect, though his deductions are much more sound than those of Robertson's ''Hist. Am.,'' i. 240-3. One of the most superficial of the modern narratives of this expedition is given by Zamacois, ''Hist. Méj.,'' ii. 236-52. Those by Morelet, ''Voy. dans l'Am. Cent., i. 179-85, and Fancourt's Hist. Yuc.,'' 9-18, are valuable. A collection of extracts from several letters to Charles V., referring to Yucatan, and forming 'an account of a recently discovered island, describing its locality, the customs and habits of its inhabitants,' was printed at Nuremberg, by Frederick Peypus, in 1520, under title beginning Ein auszug ettlicher sendbrieff dem aller durchleüchtigisten. Carbajal Espinosa, ''Hist. Mex.,'' i. 51-65, ii. 21, and Ramirez, in his Mexican edition of Prescott, i. 132 and 135, beside narratives, give portraits of Velazquez, Córdoba, and Grijalva. ''Sahagun, Hist. Conq. 13-9, and Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ.,'' iv. 27-50, are most valuable from an aboriginal stand-point. Alaman, in his Disert., i. 49-91, treats of both Córdoba's and Grijalva's voyages. Among the many allusions to these two expeditions of no special significance are those found in Ogilby's Am., 76-8; Purchas, His Pilgrimes, v. 858; Oveido, Sommario, in Ramusio, Viaggi, iii. 182-9; ''Soc. Mex. Geog., Boletin,'' iii. 242-3; Robertson's Visit Mex., i. 143; ''Voy., Cur. and Ent., 471-9; World Displayed, i. 166-79; Voy., A New Col., i. 189-98; Sammlung aller Reisebesch.,'' xiii. 254-64; Laharpe, Abrégé, ix. 219-31; Kerr's Voy., ii. 70-1, and iii. 416-53; Klemm, Allgemeine Culturgeschichte, 219; Cordua, Scheeps-Togt, 3-18, and 35-89, in Aa, Naaukeurige Versameling, Montanus, Nieuwe Weereld, 72-5; Gottfried, Reysen, iii.; Folsom, in Cortés' Despatches, 6-8; ''Howitt's Hist. U. S., i. 8-9; Lardner's Hist. Discov.,'' ii. 43-4; ''Span. Conq. in Am.,'' ii. 3-9; Vetancvrt, Teatro Mex., pt. iii., 106-9; ''Larenaudière, Mex. et Guat., 53-4; Calle, Mem. y Not., 81-2; Mayer's Mex. Aztec, i. 14-15; Hassel, Mex. Guat., 6; Holmes' An. Am., i. 35-7; Galvano's Discov., 130-2; Corradi, Descub. de la Am.,'' ii. 7-19; ''Dalton's Conq. Mex. and Peru, 47-9; Span. Emp. in Am., 27-8; Snowden's Am., 77-9; Raynal, Hist. Phil.,'' iii. 246-7; Descripcion de Am., MS., 112-13; ''Gordon's Hist. Am., 112-13; Malte-Brun, Yucatan, 23-4; Wilson's Conq. Mex., 291; Castellanos, Varones ilustres de Indias, 71; Peter Martyr, dec. iv., capi i.-v., Dufey, Résumé, i. 97-103; Mavor's Hist.,'' xxiv. 65-6; ''Gregory's Hist. Mex., 19-20; Norman's Rambles, 95; Wilson's Mex. and Reg., 18; Colton's Jour. Geog.,'' No. vi. 84; Newe Zeittung von Jucatan, 1, etc.; Monglave, Résumé, 41-6; March y Labores, Marina Española, i. 463-4; Cortesii, von dem Neuen Hisp., pt. ii. 2-5; Morelli, Fasti Novi Orbis, 16; Armin, Alte