Note XII‑14 — Chapter XII · ALVARADO'S LAST EXPEDITION. 1537-1541.

Mendoza states that he fitted out as best he could 12 ships. Carta, in Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., iii. 507; Herrera, 12 deep-sea vessels, including one of 13 and one of 20 benches of oars. Beaumont, 12 ships. Crón. Mich., ii. 252; Tello, Hist. N. Gal., 382, a fleet of ships; Bernal Diaz, 13 good sized ships, including a galley and a patache. Hist. Verdad., 235; Vazquez, 13 ships. Chronica de Gvat., 159; Remesal, 10 or 12 large ships, a galley, and fustas with oars. Hist. Chyapa, 161; so also, Gomara, Hist. Ind., 268-9, and Torquemada, i. 323; Oviedo states that there were 13 ships, including large and small; 3 galleons over 200 tons each, a fine galley and two fustas; the other ships being of 100 tons burden and over, iv. 19, 20, 23; Juarros, 12 deep-sea vessels and 2 smaller ones. Gvat., i. 255, and Benzoni, Hist. Mondo Nvovo, 154, 10 vessels and 4 brigantines. Bernal Diaz asserts that the fleet was fitted out in Acajutla, and Tello at Realejo. Lastly Oviedo represents Alvarado as sailing from Iztapa, when 8 ships were built, to Acajutla. There is even more discrepancy with regard to the number of his men. Viceroy Mendoza states that the force consisted of 400 men and 60 horses. Carta, in Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., iii. 507; Oviedo of 1,000 men, some of whom he brought from Spain, and others had seen service in the Indies; Herrera that there were more than 800 soldiers and 50 horses; Bernal Diaz, 650 soldiers besides officers, and many horses; Tello, 300 Spaniards; Beaumont, 800, and 150 horses, and Benzoni, 700 soldiers.