[43] Southey, vol. iv., p. 159.
[44] Napier, vol. ii., p. 349; Southey, vol. iii., p. 511.
[45] "Various explanations have been offered of this name. One account says, that upon finding his family murdered by the French, Juan Martin Diaz smeared his face with pitch and made a solemn vow of vengeance. Another, that he was so called because of his swarthy complexion. But in the account of his life it is said, that all the inhabitants of Castrillo de Duero, where he was born, have this nickname indiscriminately given them by their neighbours, in consequence of a black mud, called pecina, deposited by a little stream which runs through the place; and the appellation became peculiar to him from his celebrity."—Southey, vol. iii., p. 511.
[46] Southey, vol. iv., p. 405.
[47] Southey, vol. iv., p. 415.
[48] Southey, vol. iv., p. 482.
[49] Southey, vol. iii., p. 405; Fouché, tom. i., p. 339.
[50] Fouché, tom. i., p. 329.
[51] Fouché, tom. i., p. 329.
[52] Mémoires de Fouché, tom. i., p. 331.