Note 130 — Chapter VI · THE VOYAGE. 1519.
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‘Señalo treze de a cauallo,’ who are named as Olid, Alvarado, Puertocarrero, Escalante, Montejo, Ávila, Velazquez de Leon, Morla, Láres the good horseman to distinguish him from another Láres, Gonzalo Dominguez, Moron of Bazamo, and Pedro Gonzalez of Trujillo, Cortés being the thirteenth. Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 22; Solis, Hist. Mex., i. 106, says fifteen horses, but in the Carta del Ayunt. de V. Cruz, in Cortés, Cartas, 16, the number decreases to ten.