[1098] Cortés leaves the impression that the foremost division of six horse defeated the foe. Both Gomara and Herrera are confused, and Prescott and others are led into several mistakes.
[1099] Bernal Diaz names two of them.
[1100] He even willed that his bones should there be entombed, a request which was not carried out.
[1101] ‘No eran cosas de hombres humanos ... que ayan hecho ningunos vasallos tan grandes servicios a su Rey ... y dello harian relacion a su Magestad.’ Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 135.
[1102] At the junctions of the causeways which led from the different shores to the southern avenue of Mexico. The place is also known as Acachinanco.
[1103] Bernal Diaz states that Cortés was preparing an ambuscade with ten horse and four equerries when he fell into one himself and lost the two, whom he names. Alarmed at his delay, Alvarado went back to look for him. loc. cit. This is less likely than the version of Cortés.
[1104] Nobles they are termed, and Herrera doubles the number.
[1105] Prescott and others intimate that they passed between the lakes, from Quauhtitlan to Acolman, but Cortés mentions Zilotepec, which may be identical with Citlaltepec, as mentioned by Herrera, or Xilotzinco, about two leagues eastward, as given by Ixtlilxochitl. Bernal Diaz also appears to indicate the northern route.
[1106] Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 129.
[1107] Bernal Diaz assumes that more than one captain-general was to be appointed. ‘Para boluerse a Cuba, y deshazer a Cortes,’ is all the explanation given by Gomara, Hist. Mex., 178.