Ixtlilxochitl states in one place that his namesake remained at Tezcuco to raise troops and to arrange for regular trains of supplies for the Spanish camps. In another relation he allows him to accompany Cortés with 16,000 canoes. Hor. Crueldades, 21; Relacion, 314. The canoes which now attended the fleet appear to have served chiefly as transports.

Owned even under republican rule by the heirs of Cortés, as a tetzontli quarry.

Cortés, Cartas, 211. Bernal Diaz raises the number to 4000, Peter Martyr to 5000, while Vetancurt assumes that the 500 were merely the van. Teatro Mex., pt. iii. 158.

Oviedo writes that they were sacrificing boys to propitiate the gods. iii. 516. ‘La flota q̄ les parecio no dar batalla con tan pocas y cansadas,’ observes Gomara, Hist. Mex., 194.