Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 144-5.

Cortés exultantly claims that three fourths of the city is now captured. Cartas, 227; Sahagun, Hist. Conq. (ed. 1840), 181; Torquemada, i. 550.

‘No se hartauan de pescado, que tuuierõ pocos dias: y demas de la hambre con q̄ peleauan, el sol, y el frio no les dio pequeño trabajo.’ Herrera, dec. iii. lib. i. cap. xix.

‘Soliti sunt hostes in prælio cadentes intra suos ventres sepelire,’ explains Peter Martyr, dec. v. cap. viii., and with some truth.