Note 826 — Chapter XXVI · LA NOCHE TRISTE. June 30, 1520.
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‘Pasaron cuatro acequias, y antes que pasasen las demas salió vna muger á tomar agua y viólos.’ Sahagun, Hist. Conq., 32. ‘A devil, without doubt,’ adds Camargo, who describes her as a keeper of an eating-house, and indicates exactly the location of her house. Hist. Tlax., 167. Cortés states that the alarm was given by the guard at the first breach held by the Mexicans, where the portable bridge was laid down. Cartas, 136.