Note 252 — Chapter XI · THE SINKING OF THE FLEET. July-August, 1519.

The names vary somewhat in different authorities, Bernal Diaz including instead of Peñate, a number of the Gibraltar sailors known as Peñates, who were lashed at Cozumel for theft. The plot was hatched ‘Desde â quatro dias que partieron nuestros Procuradores.’ Hist. Verdad., 39. Cortés mentions only four ‘determinado de tomar un bergantin ... y matar al maestre dél, y irse á la isla Fernandina.’ Cartas, 53-4. Gomara assumes them to be the same who last revolted on setting out for Tizapantzinco. Hist. Mex., 64. ‘Pusieron ... por obra de hurtar un navío pequeño, é salir á robar lo que llevaban para el rey.’ Tapia, Relacion, in Icazbalceta, Col. Doc., ii. 563. Peter Martyr jumbles the names, dec. v. cap. i.