[88] The legend stands in the Martyrology under date of the 30th of November, but Gonzaga (“Orígen de la religion seráfica,” 1587, Part I., p. 105) is mistaken when he says that the event happened in the year 1560. Mota-Padilla depends on the manuscript of Don Pedro de Tobar, who fixes the date at 1542, which agrees closely with the statements of the monk’s contemporaries—Casteñeda’s error excepted.
[89] Tlascala is only twenty-five miles from Cholula.
[90] Five or six thousand according to his two letters, 2000 according to Bernal Diaz del Castillo, and 40,000 according to Andrés del Tápia.
[91] Called by Gabriel de Rojas, Aquiach and Tlalquiach.
[92] Tápia’s account is of much later date, and Bernal Diaz composed his history nearly fifty years after the massacre of Cholula.
[93] See the chapter on Cibola.
[94] Page 230.
[95] Page 236.
[96] I saw the head of one of them, which was for 800 pesos—a large sum for the conditions in New Mexico at that time.