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History of Mexico, Volume 1, 1516-1521

Note 1200 — Chapter XXXIV · THE CONQUEST ACHIEVED. July-August, 1521.

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Herrera names Magallanes as one of those who succumbed under the onslaught of a chief, but his death was avenged by Diego Castellanos, a noted marksman. dec. iii. lib. i. cap. xx. On this occasion Ixtlilxochitl intimates that his namesake captured his brother, the usurper king of Tezcuco, and surrendering him to Cortés, he was at once secured with shackles. Hor. Crueldades, 42-3. ‘De manera que de cuatro partes de la ciudad, las tres estaban ya por nosotros.’ Cortés, Cartas, 246.

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