Cortés speaks of an ambuscade by the horsemen wherein 30 Mexicans fell. Cartas, 218. How many of his own were lost he prudently abstains from mentioning, though admitting many wounded. ‘Dexaron perdido los Españoles esta vez el tiro grueso,’ says Torquemada, i. 548, but this is unlikely.

Cortés, Cartas, 221. Bernal Diaz states that Alvarado received four and Sandoval only two. Hist. Verdad., 141.

‘Eran esclavos del señor de Tenuxtitan,’ is Cortés’ definition of their vassalage to Mexico. Cartas, 220.

A service which employed 20,000 carriers, 1000 canoes, and 32,000 convoy warriors, all at the expense of Tezcuco, says Ixtlilxochitl, Relaciones, 314.