One being killed and two horses wounded. Bernal Diaz, loc. cit.

Sahagun, Hist. Conq. (ed. 1840), 213. The editor Bustamante speaks of a similar phenomenon in Michoacan in 1829. Id. (ed. 1829), 68.

‘De los niños no quedó nadie, que las mismas madres y padres los comian,’ is the statement of the native records. Id., 210. Yet Torquemada, i. 572, assumes that the Mexicans would not eat of their own race. Thousands had already died of starvation without touching the flesh of countrymen, though priests partook of children sacrificed during ordinary festivals; but at last the scruple among the masses was overcome by despair. See Native Races, ii. passim.

‘Porque no acabas cõ el que nos acabe?... Desseamos la muerte por yr a descansar cõ Quetçalcouatlh,’ adds Gomara, Hist. Mex., 210-11.