Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. How Monseigneur de Bethencourt set out from Grainville; 2. How Bethencourt and his army arrived at Corunna; 3. How Monsieur de Bethencourt was accused by the Genoese, Placentian, and English merchants; 4. How they left Spain, and arrived at the island of Lancerote; 5. How Monsieur Bethencourt left the island of Lancerote; 6. How the mariners refused Gadifer admission on board of his own ship; 7. How Monsieur de Bethencourt went away to Spain and left Messire Gadifer in charge of the islands; 8. How Berthin de Berneval began his malicious doings against Gadifer; 9. How Gadifer, who had confidence in Berthin, sent him to speak to the captain of a ship; 10. How Berthin deceived his own confederates; 11. How Gadifer went to the island of Lobos; 12. How the traitor Berthin induced the king of the island of Lancerote and his people to come to him; 13. How that after Berthin had captured the king and his people, he took them to the ship Tajamar; 14. How the king escaped; 15. How Berthin's companions took the boat which Gadifer had sent for provisions; 16. How Berthin sent the boat of the Tajamar to fetch Gadifer's provisions; 17. How Berthin delivered up the women of the castle to the Spaniards, who violated them; 18. How Berthin caused the two boats to be laden with provisions; 19. How Francisco Calvo sent in search of Gadifer in the island of Lobos; 20. How Gadifer returned in the little cockboat to the island of Lancerote; 21. How the two chaplains, Brother Pierre Bontier and Messire Jean le Verrier, went to the ship Tajamar; 22. How Berthin left his comrades on shore and went off with his booty; 23. How the followers of Berthin made their way straight to the land of the Saracen; 24. How Gadifer's ship was lost; 25. How the ship Tajamar arrived at the port of Cadiz; 26. How M. de Bethencourt did homage to the king of Spain; 27. How Enguerrand de la Boissiėre sold the boat belonging to the lost ship; 28. The names of those who were treacherous to Gadifer; 29. How the natives of Lancerote became alienated from the followers of Bethencourt after the treachery of Berthin; 30. How Asche proposed to betray the king; 31. How Asche betrayed his master in the hope of entrapping Gadifer; 32. How Asche stipulated with Gadifer that he should be made king; 33. How the king escaped from Gadifer's custody, and how he had Asche put to death; 34. How Gadifer proposed to kill all the fighting men in the island of Lancerote; 35. How M. de Bethencourt's vessel arrived with vouchers; 36. How Gadifer left Lancerote in the barge to inspect all the other islands; 37. How Gadifer landed on the island of Erbanie; 38. How they came upon their enemies; 39. How those whom they encountered in the fruitful country attacked the Castilians; 40. How Gadifer passed over into the Great Canary; 41. How the company left the Great Canary and came to Gomera; 42. How Gadifer and his company left Gomera and came to Ferro; 43. How they passed over into Palma; 44. How Gadifer visited all the other islands; 45. How M. de Bethencourt arrived at Rubicon in the island of Lancerote; 46. How the king of Lancerote besought M. de Bethencourt that he might be baptised; 47. Of the introduction to the faith which M. de Bethencourt gave to the newly baptised Canarians; 48. In like of manner of Noah's ark, for the introduction of the natives of the island to the faith; 49. Continuation of the instruction in the faith; 50. Of the same matter for the instruction of the Canarians; 51. How we must believe the ten commandments of the law; 52. How we must believe in the holy sacrament of the altar; 53. Of the excellence of the islands; 54. How M. de Bethencourt rode over the country; 55. How M. de Bethencourt took measures for learning the ports and passages of the land of the Saracens; 56. How a mendicant friar explains the things which he had seen; 57. Continuation

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Volume 46 of the publications of the Hakluyt Society (1872) contains an account of the conquest of the Canary Islands.