Note 713 — Chapter XXII · ALVARADO’S MERCILESS MASSACRE. May, 1520.
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‘Viua, viua la gala de los Romanos, que siẽdo tan pocos, han vencido a Narvaez!’ to which Guidelo, the negro jester of Narvaez, added, ‘Behold! the Romans never performed such a feat.’ Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 99. Herrera speaks more at length of the sayings of this negro, who was rewarded with a crown of gold worth 600 ducats. dec. ii. lib. x. cap. iv.