HISTORY OF THE SPANISH CONQUEST OF YUCATAN AND OF THE ITZAS

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and documents in which the policies he was to follow and the authority
with which he was invested were very fully set forth.


The Orders of the Governor. One thing is particularly striking in
connection with all the conquests of the Spaniards in America, and that
is the very divergent attitudes toward the natives assumed by the
Church and State on the one hand and by the soldiery and colonists on
the other. Nowhere does this difference come out more clearly than in
the matter of the entradas of Avendano. As that writer's report of the
papers given to him by Governor Ursua just before he set out on his
second trip is rather long, I will give an extract of it in order that
the reader may see just what was desired by the Padres and by the
Governor.

In the first place the Governor ordered that Avendano and his
companions be given all necessary horses, Indians, and other equipment.