The "New Laws." 213 main course of public events in the Indies sometimes depended upon, and was often curiously interwoven with, the legislation in Spain relating to the distribution and possession of the native Indians as involved in the granting of encomiendas. CHAPTER I. IMPORTANCE OF THE HISTORY OF GUATEMALA.-EMBASSIES TO CORTEZ AFTER THE SIEGE OF MEXICO. HIS DISCOVERY OF THE SEA OF THE SOUTH.-ORIGIN OF THE KINGDOM OF GUATEMALA.-LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF THAT COUNTRY.-EXPEDITION AGAINST GUATEMALA PREPARED. CHAPTER II. CONQUEST OF GUATEMALA BY PEDRO DE ALVARADO.-FOUNDING OF THE TOWN OF GUATEMALA. CHAPTER III. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DOMINICAN AND FRANCISCAN ORDERS IN NEW SPAIN.-LIFE OF DOMINGO DE BETANZOS.-LETTERS OF THE FIRST BISHOPS. CHAPTER IV. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TOWN OF SANTIAGO IN GUATEMALA.DOMINGO DE BETANZOS COMES TO SANTIAGO AND FOUNDS A DOMINICAN CONVENT THERE.-IS OBLIGED TO RETURN TO MEX ICO. CHAPTER V. REAPPEARANCE OF LAS CASAS.-HIS MISSION TO PERU.-HIS STAY IN NICARAGUA.-DISPUTES WITH THE GOVERNOR. COMES TO GUATEMALA, AND OCCUPIES THE CONVENT THAT HAD BEEN FOUNDED BY Domingo de BETANZOS.-ALVARADO'S EXPEDITION TO PERU.-LAS CASAS AND HIS BRETHREN STUDY THE UTLATECAN LANGUAGE. VOL. III.-K |