Introduction; To the reader; Dedication; 1. I begin life; 2. How I set out, in the name of God; 3. Of what happened to me in Barcelona; 4. Of what happened to me in the expedition against the Moors; 5. How they attacked the Moors; 6. What happened to me afterwards; 7. Of what happened to me in Naples; 8. Of what happened to me in Rome and Cologne; 9. Of what happened at Valenciennes; 10. How I set out from Seville to go into banishment; 11. What happened to me in Alicante, and on board the Venetian ship; 12. What the emperor said in reply to the dispatch of the governor, and what happened afterwards; 13. What happened to me afterwards; 14. What happened to me at Majorca; 15. How I went to Ivica; 16. How we fared in the battle, and how I challenge Barbaroja; 17. How I departed from the port in which I disembarked the soldiers; 18. What happened to me in Seville; 19. How, after I went to the court, I found the Marquis of Ayamonte, and all the grandees of the kingdom, who had been summoned by the emperor, at Valladolid; and what happened afterwards; 20. How I was presented to the emperor, and what happened respecting the recent affair at Seville; 21. What passed with the emperor, our lord, when I went to give an account of the charge which he had entrusted to me, in the reduction of Majorca, and defence of Ivica; 22. How I fared with the Residendencia; and how I became a courtier, and went to Portugal; 23. How I dined with the Infanta of Portugal; 24. What afterwards befell me with the Emperor; 25. The hostility of the Bishop of Oman, the King's confessor, against me; 26. How the emperor was married, and the reward which his wife gave me; 27. How I receive a pension; 28. How I fared in my attempt to obtain the habit of Santiago; 29. The emperor goes to Italy, and I am banished for trying to kill the accountant; 30. What happened to me in my banishment; 31. How I returned to court; 32. How once more I departed from the court; 33. The following letter was one which I wrote to another knight, named Pero Mexia; 34. This is a letter which the Bishop of Escalas wrote to me; 35. What happened to me after my return to Seville, and how I set out for the Indies; 36. What happened to me on the ocean; 37. What happened during the voyage to the Indies; 38. I arrive at the island of Espanola, and afterwards I resolve to go to Peru; 39. How I crossed the Isthmus of Panama; 40. How I arrived in the land of Peru; 41. Of the Indians of Peru, and of Atabalipa, who was killed by the Spaniards; 42. I arrive at Piura, in the province of Peru, and afterwards go to the City of Kings; 43. What happened to me in the principal city of Peru, which is now called the City of Kings, and of my first interview with his lordship the governor; 44. How I departed from this city, which is called Lima in the language of the Indians, and by us the City of Kings, and came to the great city of Cuzco; 45. Of the governor Francisco Pizarro; 46. How the Virgin Mary helped us on her holy day; 47. Diego Almagro arrives in Cuzco; 48. Of what happened to myself principally; 49. I have seen all things in the world, and for this I give all the praise to God alone, who is Sovereign Lord; 50. Don Diego de Almagro encamps at Huaytara, and I write to the friar; 51. What happened in the war between these two governors; 52. How the governor sallied forth from the city of Cuzco; 53. The death of the governor Don Diego de Almagro; 54. I return to Spain, where I am imprisoned by the Royal Council of the Indies; and how I receive favours from Prince Philip, our Lord; 55. I arrive at Seville; 56. The letter which I wrote to the emperor, as soon as he arrived in Spain; 57. This is a letter which I wrote from Peru, to the most illustrius Duke of Medina Sidonia; 58. A letter from an aged knight, in reply to one which I had written to him, asking him to inform me respecting my lineage;
