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History of Mexico, Volume 1, 1516-1521

Note 763 — Chapter XXIII · UPRISING OF THE AZTECS. May-June, 1520.

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Native Races, ii. 134-6; v. 462-4; ‘Il y joignait, comme de coutume, la charge du grand prêtre de Huitzilopochtli.’ Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., iv. 309. Gomara assumes that Cortés orders a chief to open the market. He, offended at the insults used, goes only to rouse the people. Hist. Mex., 153. Ixtlilxochitl supposes that the chief is offended at the reprimand administered for delaying to open the market. Hist. Chich., 301. ‘Mandò Hernando Cortes llamar a los mas principales caualleros, hizoles vna larga platica diziẽdo, que les perdonaua lo passado, con que para adelãte fuessen ... amigos: ... sin responder ... se fueron.’ Herrera, dec. ii. lib. x. cap. viii.

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