Note 1172 — Chapter XXXIII · CONTINUATION OF THE SIEGE. June-July, 1521.

‘Sacrificados los Nuestros, en el Momoztli, y Templo de su Maior Dios,’ observes Torquemada, i. 553, among other points, though all are not exactly true. Huitzilopochtli’s image had been brought with the retreating Mexicans to Tlatelulco. ‘Immediatamente sacrificati,’ says Clavigero, Storia Mess., iii. 212, probably on authority of Gomara; but Bernal Diaz states that the sacrifices lasted ten days, Hist. Verdad., 150; others write eight; one victim is said to have been kept eighteen days. See also Sahagun, Hist. Conq., 192. Ixtlilxochitl states that three victims were burned. Hor. Crueldades, 39.