These numbers are variously stated by different authorities.—See Prescott, vol. 2d, p. 377.

We have no accurate estimate of the numbers engaged in this battle, or of the slain.

The writer sounded the lake in the channel from Mexico to Tezcoco in 1842, and did not find more than 2½1/2 feet in the deepest path. The Indians, at present, wade over all parts of the lake.

This fact, as stated by Bernal Diaz, is doubted by some other writers, and seems, unfortunately, not fully sustained by authority.

Prescott 3d, 261.