Note XVIII-49 — Chapter XVIII · MARCH OF CORTÉS TO HONDURAS. 1524-1525.
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'Murieron sesenta y ocho caballos despeñados y dejarretados,' etc. Cortés, Cartas, 433. Bernal Diaz is less clear on this incident. Gomara follows Cortés, although he says that the passage took only eight days, Hist. Mex., 263, and Herrera is the only one who enters into the losses sustained in men, a number dying also of diarrhœa from palm-cabbage. Ubi sup.