Note XXVI-14 — Chapter XXVI · EXPEDITION TO SALVADOR. 1524.

These consisted of cloth, cross-bow strings, horseshoes, nails, and other iron articles. Alvarado states at a later date that the nails and horseshoes were cast with copper by the Indians, who believed that the iron would melt with it. Ramirez, Proceso contra Alvarado, 79-80. The clothing, he says, could not be recovered, as it had been torn up for breech-clouts. Relacion, i. 163; Oviedo, iii. 483.