BERNAL DIEZ DEL CASTILLO. "Historia verdadera de la Conquista de Nueva España," Madrid, 1632. (There may be two editions of the same year). Of the Spanish reprints I mention here (also contained in "Historiadores primitivos de Indias," Vedia, 1852, Vol. II.), the one of 1837, Paris, 4 Vols. 12^o, and the other of 1854, México, 4 vols. also.--Two English translations are known to me at present: "The True History of the Conquest of Mexico, by Captain Bernal Diez del Castillo," translated by Maurice Keatings, London, 1800.--"The Memoirs of the Conquistador, Bernal Diez del Castillo," translated by John Ingram Lockhart, London, 1844.--There is also a German translation, by P. J. Rehfuss, Bonn, 1838.--Bernal Diez (not Diaz) is very valuable as eye-witness, having been to Yucatan with Cordoba (1517), Grijalva (1518), Cortés (1519),--and finally with the latter to Honduras, passing through Peten.
FRAY LORENZO DE BIENVIDA. Letter to the Infanto Philip (II.), dated Yucatan, 10 February, 1548. Original in MS. French translation by H. Ternaux-Compans in "1^{ er} Recueil de Piéces concernant le Méxique," Vol. X. 1838, of his collection of "Mémoires et documents Originaux, &c., &c."
GONZALO FERNANDEZ DE OVIEDO Y VALDÉS. "Historia General y natural de las Indias," composed of 50 books.--The first 19 books, and part of the 50th, were published by the author as early as 1535,--and the first 20 books as early as 1557,--but the entire work has only been printed in 1851, at Madrid, 4 Vols. folio.--It is full of details concerning Yucatan.
FRANCISCO LOPEZ DE GOMARA. "Historia general de las Indias, y todo lo acaescido en ellas dende que se ganaron hasta agora. Y la conquista de México, y de la nueva España, &c." Zaragoza, 1552.--Of this book I quote--e. g.--the following Spanish editions: Medina del Campo, 1553, Antwerp, 2 prints, 1554--Zaragoza, 1555,--and it is also contained in "Historiadores primitivos de Indias," by Andrés Gonzalez Barcia, Madrid, 1749, Vol. II.--and in "Historiadores primitivos de Indias," by Vedia, Madrid, 1852, Vol. I.--There is an Italian version, by Augustino de Cravaliz, Rome, 1556, ("La Histoirie generale delle Indie Occidentali. &c., &c."), and French translations published respectively in 1578, 1587, 1597, and 1605.--Finally, Juan Bautista de San Anton Muñoz Chimalpain Guauhtlehuanitzin made a translation into the Mexican, or "Nahuatl" language, which C. M. Bustamante published at Mexico, in 1826.--I know of no English translation of the work.--It actually consists of two parts, the "Historia General," and the "Conquista de México."--The former contains a short, but fair, description of Yucatan, and the latter a report on Cortés' doings there and matters relating thereto.
