Note 800 — Chapter XXV · DEATH OF MONTEZUMA. June, 1520.

‘Cortes lloró por èl, y todos nuestros Capitanes, y soldados: è hombres huvo entre nosotros ... que tan llorado fue, como si fuera nuestro padre.’ Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 104. Cortés speaks highly of him, ‘y siempre tuvo mui buena voluntad á los Españoles,’ but this is in the deed presented to his daughter. See Privilegio, Monumentos Domin. Esp., MS., 66. In the Cartas he is referred to merely as a captive who dies. After saying that he never consented to the death of a Spaniard nor to injury against Cortés, Gomara adds: ‘Tambien ay quien lo cõtrario diga.’ Hist. Mex., 154-5.