Chapter III

DEFECTION OF OLID--DREADFUL MARCH TO HONDURAS--EXECUTION OF GUATEMOZIN--DOÑA MARINA--ARRIVAL AT HONDURAS

Defection of Olid 175

Cortés prepares to visit Honduras 176

The General’s Retinue 177

Obstacles on the March 179

Passes near Palenque 180

Lost in the Mazes of the Forests 181

Builds a stupendous Bridge 182

Horses sink in the Marshes 182

Reports of a Conspiracy 183

Guatemozin arrested 184

His Execution 185

His Character 185

Feelings of the Army 187

Cause of the Execution 187

Cortés’ Remorse 188

Prosecution of the March 189

Lake of Peten 189

Doña Marina 190

Her Meeting with her Mother 190

She marries a Castilian Knight 191

Her Son Don Martin 192

Missionaries in the Isles of Peten 192

Passage of “the Mountain of Flints” 193

Army arrives at Honduras 194

Famine in the Colony 195

Cortés reaches Truxillo 196

Prepares to reduce Nicaragua 196

His romantic Daring 197

Tidings from Mexico 198