ABSTRACT
Las Casas was wrecked on the coast, and fell into Cristoval de Olid 's hands, but eventually succeeded in raising an insurrection in the settlement, seized the person of Olid, and beheaded that unhappy delinquent in the market-place of Naco. Before Hernando Cortes made his assault, his scouts fortunately fell in with some of the inhabitants of the place, from whom they received tidings of the death of Olid, and of the re-establishment of his own authority. The latter admitted the fact of the conspiracy, but alleged that it had been planned by Guatemozin and that they had refused to come into it. Guatemozin and the chief of Tacuba neither admitted nor denied the truth of the accusation, but maintained a dogged silence. In the course of the expedition to Honduras, Hernando Cortes gave Donamar Marina away to a Castilian knight, Don Juan Xaramillo, to whom she was wedded as his lawful wife.
