Note 106 — Chapter VI · THE VOYAGE. 1519.

See Native Races, iii. 109 and 183. ‘Biondo.’ Clavigero, Storia Mess., iii. 8. Elaborating this, Brasseur de Bourbourg says, ‘Aux cheveux blonds et coloré de visage, ce qui lui fit donner par les Tlaxcaltèques le surnom de Tonatiuh.’ Hist. Nat. Civ., iv. 53. But the authority for calling him blonde is not mentioned. It may rest on mere tradition. A Mexican picture gives him dark beard and a yellow helmet or head-dress, the same colors being given to the beard and head-dress of figures representing the Spanish troops. Ramirez is rather inclined to doubt the authenticity of the portrait so frequently copied from Cortina’s copper-plates, representing him as of dark complexion, with long, meagre, pointed face, very high forehead, stubbed hair, mustache, and imperial. Ramirez, Proceso contra Alvarado, pp. xi. xxii. 277-82, with plates. Prescott’s Mex. (Mex. 1844), i. 458; Id. (Gondra ed.), iii. 220; Carbajal Espinosa, Hist. Mex., ii. 340, 686, with signature. A wood-cut in Armin, Alte Mex., 222, presents a much younger man, with a round, handsome face, curled hair, and full, curled beard. This corresponds more to the description given in the text, but the authority is not indicated. Zamacois, Hist. Méj., ii. 484, gives a full-length portrait corresponding to this.