Note 364 — Chapter XIV · SUBJUGATION OF CHOLULA. October, 1519.
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This is the figure deduced from later references. ‘Quedaron en mi compañía hasta cinco ó seis mil.’ Cortés, Cartas, 72. Dismissing the 100,000 with presents, he retained only 3000. ‘Por no ponerse en manos de gente barbara.’ Herrera, dec. ii. lib. vii. cap. i. ‘Six thousand warriors,’ says Ixtlilxochitl, Hist. Chich., 294. He gives the names of their chiefs, which differ wholly from those mentioned in Camargo, Hist. Tlax., 160. ‘Fueron tãbien con el muchos mercaderes a rescatar sal y mantas.’ Gomara, Hist. Mex., 91.