Note 688 — Chapter XXI · THE COUP DE MAÎTRE OF CORTÉS. May, 1520.
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Herrera writes 3000, 1500, and 1000 pesos de oro. Cortés’ acts are said by the men of Velazquez to have been prompted by ‘un diabólico pensamiento é infernal osadía.’ Demanda de Ceballos, in Icazbalceta, Col. Doc., i. 441.