From the Book - First Touchstone edition
To know the secrets of the land
The battle for Tenochtitlan
2. Palace of the white sedges --
3. I see misfortune come --
4. Not with love but with fear --
II. Spain of the Golden Age --
6. Pope must have been drunk --
7. Better lands have never been discovered --
8. What I saw was so splendid --
9. great Lord born in brocade --
10. Sweating, hunger and hard work --
III. To Know the Secrets of the Land --
11. gentlemanly pirate --
12. advantage of having horse and cannon --
13. As much as where Solomon took the gold for the temple --
14. dragon's head for a "Florentine" glass --
15. They received him with trumpets --
16. If I continue, shall I win? --
17. To leave none of us alive --
18. This cruelty restored order --
19. Another new world of great cities and towers --
IV. Cortes and Montezuma --
20. image of Quetzalcoatl --
21. Bees and spiders make works of art --
22. Something must be done for the Lord --
V. Cortes' Plans Undone --
23. King, our lord, is more King than other Kings --
24. voice very deep and hoarse as if it came from a vault --
25. To cut off Don Hernando's ears --
26. blood of the chieftains ran like water --
27. As a song you were born, Montezuma --
28. Fortune spins her wheel --
29. sweetness of death by the obsidian knife --
30. It was convenient to impose the said punishment --
31. My principal intention and motive in making this war --
32. They were all lords --
VII. Battle for Tenochtitlan --
33. Remember the bold hearts --
34. great harvest of captives --
37. songs and voices scarcely ceased --
38. clause in Adam's will which excludes France --
39. absolute monarch. App. I: The population of old Mexico --
App. II: A summary of Montezuma's tribute --
App. III: Mexican calendars --
App. IV: Spanish money c. 1520 --
App. V: Cortes' ladies --
Genealogies I: The emperors of Mexico --
Genealogies II: The Spanish and imperial royal families --
Genealogies III: Cortes and his relations --
Genealogies IV: The transformation of the Mexican royal family --
Genealogies V: Cortes' arrival in the nobility --
Unpublished Documents 1: Cortes' father Martin Cortes in Medellin --
Unpublished Documents 2: Cortes' grandfather Diego Alfon Altamirano --
Unpublished Documents 3: Cortes' journey to America, 1506 --
Unpublished Documents 4: A letter from Cortes in Mexico, 6 July 1519 --
Unpublished Documents 5: Montezuma's concession of power, 1520 --
Unpublished Documents 6: New evidence about the death of Catalina --
Unpublished Documents 7: Cortes, art and loyalty --
Unpublished Documents 8: Diego Velazquez's punishments.