Note 874 — Chapter XXVII · RETREAT TO TLASCALA. July, 1520.
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‘Le comieron sin dexar [como dizen] pelo ni huesso.’ Gomara, Hist. Mex., 162. ‘La cabeza cupo a siete o ocho.’ The horse was Gamboa’s, on which Alvarado was saved after his leap. Herrera, ii. x. xii.; Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 107. Ixtlilxochitl says that Zinacatzin, of Teotihuacan, killed it—he whom we shall find leading the enemy on the morrow.