[XIX-1] Sixty men and twenty women left by Gonzalez. Cortés, Cartas, 440. Forty Spaniards and four women, says Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 204.
[XIX-2] 'De todos ellos no habia ocho para poder quedar en la tierra.' Cortés, Cartas, loc. cit. Their captain, Armenta, having refused to return with them to Cuba, they had hanged him a few days before, and had elected Nieto, who was ready to execute their wishes. Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 204.
[XIX-3] Montagua probably.
[XIX-4] Captain Marin found eight leagues off, on the Naco road, a number of well-supplied villages, from which provisions were forwarded. Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 204.
[XIX-5] Bought on credit from the owner, Anton de Carmona or Camargo, says Bernal Diaz, who reduces the stock to seven horses and forty hogs.
[XIX-6] A party had already been sent in this direction, but they returned within ten days disheartened, throwing discredit on the informants, who on their side accused the men of being faint-hearted. Cortés, Cartas, 441-2.
[XIX-7] Eighty Spaniards had attacked a pueblo, but the Indians returned in greater force and drove them off with some wounded. Cortés, Cartas, 444.
[XIX-8] It was sought to allure the natives back to aid in carrying supplies, but none came. Cortés, Cartas, 450. Bernal Diaz relates that the warriors returned to the attack after the flight, only to lose eight men. They now came to sue, and Cortés offered to release the captives if they sent down provisions to the vessel. This they did, but Cortés nevertheless insisted on retaining three families, whereupon the Indians attacked and wounded twelve Spaniards, including the general. Hist. Verdad., 205. This writer was not with the expedition, however, but at Naco, so that his account is doubly doubtful.
[XIX-9] 'Quimistlan y Zula y Cholome, que el que menos destos tiene por mas de dos mil casas.' Cortés, Cartas, 456. Bernal Diaz also names some places. Hist. Verdad., 207.
[XIX-10] He had been buffeted off the coast for nine days, while the land party arrived long before him, over a good road.