Note 485 — Chapter XVI · MEETING WITH MONTEZUMA. November, 1519.
Reading edition
Vetancvrt, Teatro Mex., pt. iii. 129. Sahagun, followed by Acosta, Brasseur de Bourbourg, and others, states that the artillery was discharged at night to startle the natives. Hist. Conq. (ed. 1840), 85.