Note 1067 — Chapter XXXI · PRELIMINARY CAMPAIGNS. March-May, 1521.
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So runs Bernal Diaz’ account, which appears a little exaggerated, for recently Cortés had shown the greatest caution, and would hardly have allowed himself to be so readily trapped on so memorable a spot. Hist. Verdad., 126. Cortés states that not a Spaniard was lost, though several Mexicans fell. Cartas, 187.