Bernal Diaz gives Sandoval 100 young unmarried soldiers, with Francisco
de Acevedo, the dandy, Ordaz, Tapia, and eight or nine of Narvaez’ men, captains
on his staff. To Cortés he gives 50 men, and adds B. V. de Tapia to his
staff. Hist. Verdad., 105. This author is contradictory, however. Herrera
places Antonio de Quiñones as Sandoval’s chief aid, and Olid and Ordaz in
the rear. dec. ii. lib. x. cap. xi.; Gomara, Hist. Mex., 160; Cortés, Cartas, 134;
Ramirez, Proceso contra Alvarado, 30 et seq.
Herrera adds a brother of Montezuma, and Sahagun names two sons.
Hist. Conq., 33. So does Vetancurt, although he assumes that one was saved.
Teatro Mex., pt. iii. 142-3. Ixtlilxochitl gives a longer list, including two sons
of Montezuma, and two sons and four daughters of Nezahualpilli, of Tezcuco.
One of the daughters escaped, but it was not the beloved of Cortés, who had
been baptized and named Juana. Cacama is not included in the list, because
he is assumed to have been stabbed to death before the fort was evacuated.
Hist. Chich., 302; Relaciones, 390. With the prisoners’ division went Marina,
the interpreter, the Tlascaltec princesses Luisa and Elvira, and some other
women, protected, says Bernal Diaz, by 30 soldiers and 300 Tlascaltecs.