Note 202 — Chapter IX · THE MIGHTY PROJECT IS CONCEIVED. May, 1519.
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Las Casas says 20,000 to 30,000. Hist. Ind., iv. 492. Torquemada varies in different places from 25,000 to 150,000. The inhabitants were moved by Conde de Monterey to a village in Jalapa district, and in Torquemada’s time less than half a dozen remained. i. 397. ‘Dista de Vera-Cruz quatro leguas, y las ruínas dan á entender la grandeza de la Ciudad; pero es distinto de otro Zempoal ... que dista de este doze leguas.’ Lorenzana, in Cortés, Hist. N. España, 39. ‘Assentada en vn llano entre dos rios.’ A league and a half from the sea. Herrera, dec. ii. lib. v. cap. viii.