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 * colspan=2 |CHAPTER I.
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 * colspan=2 |1521-1523.
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 * Quarrelling over the Booty — Poor Results — Torture of Quauhtemotzin — Treasure-hunting — A Disappointment — Pasquinades — Financial Measures — A Sabine Capture — Looking for a Capital — Mexico Selected — Municipality Formed — Planning the City — Architectural Features — Cortés' Palaces — Building Material — Fort and Aqueduct — Attracting Serfs and Settlers — Merry Toilers — Arms of Tenochtitlan
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 * colspan=2 |CHAPTER II.
 * colspan=2 |PREPARATION FOR FURTHER CONQUEST.
 * colspan=2 |1521-1522.
 * Centralization and its Effect — A Fallen Athens — Reward of a Traitor — Career of a Precocious Prince — Ixtlilxochitl's Disappointment — Policy toward Native Princes — Tezcuco and Acolhuacan — -Tlascala and her Reward — New Conquest Projects — Search for Ammunition — Climbing a Volcano — Descending into the Burning Crater — Casting Cannon — Tochtepec Expedition — A Boaster's Discomfiture — Gold-hunting in Xaltepec — Espíritu Santo Founded — Zapotecapan and Miztecapan — The Mystic Prophet — Orozco Invades Oajaca — Antequera Established — Cociyopu's Dilemma — Alvarado Overruns Tututepec — Segura Founded Anew
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 * colspan=2 |CHAPTER III.
 * colspan=2 |RAIDS ALONG THE SOUTH SEA.
 * colspan=2 |1521-1524.
 * King Zwanga's Warning — First Entry into Michoacan — Montaño's Visit to the Court of Tangaxoan — A Narrow Escape — Tarascan Envoys — Olid Invades Michoacan — Outrages at Tangimaroa and Tzintzuntzan — Colonization Attempted — Visions of the South Sea — Shipbuilding at Zacatula — The Route to the Spice Islands — Alvarez' Mishap in Colima — Olid Avenges Him — Chimalhuacan Region — Isle of the Amazons — Cortes Hastens to Appropriate a Rich Field — The Queen of Jalisco — Tradition of a Shipwrecked Cross
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 * colspan=2 |PREPARATION FOR FURTHER CONQUEST.
 * colspan=2 |1521-1522.
 * Centralization and its Effect — A Fallen Athens — Reward of a Traitor — Career of a Precocious Prince — Ixtlilxochitl's Disappointment — Policy toward Native Princes — Tezcuco and Acolhuacan — -Tlascala and her Reward — New Conquest Projects — Search for Ammunition — Climbing a Volcano — Descending into the Burning Crater — Casting Cannon — Tochtepec Expedition — A Boaster's Discomfiture — Gold-hunting in Xaltepec — Espíritu Santo Founded — Zapotecapan and Miztecapan — The Mystic Prophet — Orozco Invades Oajaca — Antequera Established — Cociyopu's Dilemma — Alvarado Overruns Tututepec — Segura Founded Anew
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 * colspan=2 |CHAPTER III.
 * colspan=2 |RAIDS ALONG THE SOUTH SEA.
 * colspan=2 |1521-1524.
 * King Zwanga's Warning — First Entry into Michoacan — Montaño's Visit to the Court of Tangaxoan — A Narrow Escape — Tarascan Envoys — Olid Invades Michoacan — Outrages at Tangimaroa and Tzintzuntzan — Colonization Attempted — Visions of the South Sea — Shipbuilding at Zacatula — The Route to the Spice Islands — Alvarez' Mishap in Colima — Olid Avenges Him — Chimalhuacan Region — Isle of the Amazons — Cortes Hastens to Appropriate a Rich Field — The Queen of Jalisco — Tradition of a Shipwrecked Cross
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 * colspan=2 |1521-1524.
 * King Zwanga's Warning — First Entry into Michoacan — Montaño's Visit to the Court of Tangaxoan — A Narrow Escape — Tarascan Envoys — Olid Invades Michoacan — Outrages at Tangimaroa and Tzintzuntzan — Colonization Attempted — Visions of the South Sea — Shipbuilding at Zacatula — The Route to the Spice Islands — Alvarez' Mishap in Colima — Olid Avenges Him — Chimalhuacan Region — Isle of the Amazons — Cortes Hastens to Appropriate a Rich Field — The Queen of Jalisco — Tradition of a Shipwrecked Cross
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