ABSTRACT
After we had finished our expedition and the people of Cempoala and Cingapacinga had been reconciled to one another, and the other neighbouring towns had given their fealty to His Majesty, and the idols had been overturned and the image of Our Lady and the Holy Cross set up in their place, and the old soldier placed in charge as hermit, and all the other things that I have told about had happened, we returned to our settlement and took with us certain chieftains from Cempoala. On the day of our arrival there came into port a ship from the Island of Cuba, under the command of Francisco de Saucedo, whom we called El Pulido. 1 We called him this from his excessive pride in his good looks and elegance. They say that he was a native of Medina Rio Seco, and had been Maestresala 2 to the Admiral of Castille.
