[798] 'Residen en el a la contina cinco mil personas, y todas duermen dentro, y comen a su costa del.' Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 120. 'V'hauea vna guarnigione di dieci mila homini di guerra.' Relatione fatta per vn gentil'huomo del Signor Fernando Cortese, in Ramusio, Navigationi, tom. iii., fol. 309.
[799] The authorities on the temple of Mexico are: Bernal Diaz, Hist. Conq., fol. 70-2; Relatione fatta per vn gentil'huomo del Signor Fernando Cortese, in Ramusio, Navigationi, tom. iii., fol. 307, 309, and in Icazbalceta, Col. de Doc., tom. i., pp. 384-5, 394-5, with cuts; Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. i., p. 186, tom. ii., pp. 140-56; Sahagun, Hist. Gen., tom. i., lib. ii., pp. 197-211; Cortés, Cartas, p. 106; Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 118-22; Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. xlix., li., cxxiv.; Vetancvrt, Teatro Mex., pt ii., p. 37; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. i., pp. 257-8, tom. ii., pp. 25-32, 46-8, with cuts made up from the various descriptions of Diaz and others; see his remarks, p. 26. Acosta, Hist. de las Ynd., pp. 333-5; this author mixes up the descriptions of the chief temple and the Tzompantli, and represents this account as that of Huitzilopochtli's sanctuary; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. ii., lib. vii., cap. xvii., xviii.; Motolinia, Hist. Indios, in Icazbalceta, Col. de Doc., tom. i., pp. 63-5; Ortega, in Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. iii., pp. 279-89; Tezozomoc, Hist. Mex., tom. i., pp. 151-3, 193; Ixtlilxochitl, Hist. Chich., in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., p. 245; Oviedo, Hist. Gen., tom. iii., pp. 302-3, 502-3; Dávila Padilla, Hist. Fvnd. Mex., p. 75; Solis, Hist. Conq. Mex., tom. i., pp. 394-98; Montanus, Nieuwe Weereld, p. 242; West-Indische Spieghel, p. 248; Humboldt, Essai Pol., tom. i., p. 187; Klemm, Cultur-Geschichte, tom. v., pp. 154-5; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., pp. 659-65; Carbajal Espinosa, Hist. Mex., tom. i., p. 664, tom. ii., pp. 226-35, with cuts; Warden, Recherches, p. 66; Prescott's Mex., vol. ii., pp. 142-5.
[800] Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., p. 145; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., p. 33. Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 120, says that there were 2000 idols, each of which is supposed to have had a separate chapel. Cavo, Tres Siglos, tom. i., p. 2; Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. cxxxii.; in cap. cxxiv., he adds that 100 of these were great temples.
[801] Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 120. Some temple pyramids, says Dávila Padilla, formed a perfect cone, the casing being composed of large stones at the bottom; as the wall rose, the stones decreased in size; the summit was crowned with a precious stone. Hist. Fvnd. Mex., p. 75; Prescott's Mex., vol. i., p. 72.
[802] 'Los grandes tenian tres sobrados encima de los altares, todos de terrados y bien altos.' Motolinia, Hist. Indios, in Icazbalceta, Col. de Doc., tom. i., p. 64; Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. cxxiv.; Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., p. 141.
[803] Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. cxxiv.; Humboldt, Essai Pol., tom. i., pp. 239-40; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., pp. 33-4. Bernal Diaz counted 120 steps, which scarcely agrees with the height of the pyramid. Hist. Conq., fol. 72. Acosta, Hist. de las Ynd., pp. 390-1, mentions 60 steps only. 'Alto bien mas de quarenta estados: fue hecho de Adove, y Piedra.' Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. i., p. 281. Montanus adds that on the summit stood a square structure, supported by 28 pillars, within which were thousands of skulls; he mentions two chapels. Nieuwe Weereld, p. 236. It had 1508 steps; in the wall was a large diamond. West-Indische Spieghel, p. 238.
[804] Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. xlix. Some of these had two chapels, which would make the number of towers about 400. Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. ii., lib. vii., cap. ii.
[805] Ixtlilxochitl, Hist. Chich., in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., p. 245. The description of the temple as given by this writer is almost identical with that of the great temple at Mexico. Bernal Diaz, Hist. Conq., fol. 72; Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. i., p. 305.
[806] Ixtlilxochitl, Hist. Chich., in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., p. 257.
[807] Sahagun, Hist. Gen., tom. iii., lib. x., pp. 107-8. Further authorities on Mexican buildings: Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. ii., lib. vii., cap. iv-v., viii-xi., xiii-xviii., dec. iii., lib. i., cap. viii., lib. ii., cap. xi., xv.; Peter Martyr, dec. v., lib. ii-iii., viii., x., dec. viii., lib. iv.; Mendieta, Hist. Ecles., pp. 84-7, 121; Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. i., p. 155; Zuazo, Carta, in Icazbalceta, Col. de Doc., tom. i., pp. 359, 362; West-Indische Spieghel, pp. 240-8; Munster, Cosmographia, p. 1410; Montanus, Nieuwe Weereld, pp. 80-5, 235-7, 242-3; Cortés, Aven. y Conq., pp. 120, 128-33; Bussierre, L'Empire Mex., pp. 123-7, 172-5, 252-3, 258-9, 266; Klemm, Cultur-Geschichte, tom. v., pp. 31-2, 75, 84-5, 97-9, 152-62; Monglave, Résumé, pp. 20-1, 24-5, 36-7; Touron, Hist. Gén., tom. iii., pp. 40-8; Cooper's Hist. N. Amer., pt ii., p. 164; Lafond, Voyage, tom. i., pp. 106-7; Brownell's Ind. Races, pp. 92-5; Ranking's Hist. Researches, pp. 336-7; Domenech, Mexique, pp. 70-2; Foster's Pre-Hist. Races, p. 391; Dilworth's Conq. Mex., pp. 64, 70-1; Lenoir, Parallèle, pp. 20-1; Pimentel, Mem. sobre la Raza Indígena, pp. 55-7; Chevalier, Mex., Ancien et Mod., pp. 30-3; Purchas his Pilgrimes, vol. iv., pp. 1033, 1123-4, 1133.