Note 811 — Chapter XXVI · LA NOCHE TRISTE. June 30, 1520.

‘Hicieron todas las solemnidades que solian hacer ... Mocthecuzoma lo enterraron en México ... algunos decian mal de Mocthecuzoma porque habia sido muy cruel.’ Hist. Conq., 31. ‘Vimos q̄ hizierõ muy gran llanto, q̄ biẽ oimos las gritas, y aullidos q̄ por èl dauan.’ Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 105. ‘Hizieron muy gran llanto, para enterrar al rey en Chapultepec.’ Gomara, Hist. Mex., 154. Herrera combines these two authorities in saying ‘le deuieron de enterrar en el monte de Chapultepèque, porque alli se oyò vn gran llanto.’ dec. ii. lib. x. cap. x. He forgets that Chapultepec lay three miles off. Torquemada corrects Herrera, and insists that the ‘Copalco’ was the place. He gives specimens of the insults offered during the cremation, i. 499. ‘Estaban indignados contra él.’ Ixtlilxochitl, Hist. Chich., 301. It has been asserted by some, says Duran, that the ashes were scattered to the winds, as unworthy of preservation. Hist. Ind., MS., ii. 479. Acosta attempts a modification by stating that the body being contemptuously rejected, a servant burned it, ‘y puso sus cenizas dõde pudo en lugar harto desechado.’ Hist. Ind., 524. The burial-place has certainly not been pointed out to posterity. According to Sahagun, the body of Itzquauhtzin was ‘cast forth’ from the quarters, together with that of Montezuma, and was taken in charge by his subjects of Tlatelulco, by whom he was greatly beloved and mourned. ubi sup. To ‘cast forth’ the bodies could have been only a needless insult, which Cortés was too prudent to inflict on the people.