Note 1114 — Chapter XXXII · INVESTMENT OF MEXICO. May-June, 1521.

‘Las vanderas Reales, y otras vanderas del nombre que se dezia ser el vergantin.’ Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 138. Ixtlilxochitl assumes that the flag-ship was named Medellin, Hist. Chich., 313-14, but this appears to be based on a misinterpretation of Herrera, who places Villafuerte ‘of Medellin’ at the head of the list of captains. Vetancurt believes that the vessels were named after the apostles, to whom Cortés was so devoted. Teatro Mex., pt. iii. 156. If so, the flag-ship may have been called San Pedro, after his patron. When all were floated a storm came which threatened to break them one against the other. Torquemada, i. 532.