Extracts from: "Annals of His Time" by Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin. EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY JAMES LOCKHART, SUSAN SCHROEDER, AND DORIS NAMALA. Stanford University Press 2006https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=1...and lots more stuff in the comments, saying the author was from one of the tribes that assisted the Spanish against the Aztecs, (another story usually left out: The Aztecs were tyrannical and hated by many of the local tribes)
and here is the article about the visit in Spanish.
Endo's book The Samurai, is a fictionalized version of this visit. I actually prefer it to his more famous book "Silence" because it tells the story of the Spanish missionaries and the voyage thru the eyes of a stolid unimaginative Samurai, and like many of Endo's books, stresses the theme of God's mercy for the lowest and unwanted as one of the reasons that some Japanese converted to Christianity.
I brought the paperback book with me but it is on line HERE.
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