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The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2)

Note 6 — Chapter CXL

John Ingram Lockhart translation

Several Spanish writers make the number of Tlascallan warriors who accompanied this transport, amount to 180,000; but this is no doubt an excessive exaggeration. Here again the honesty of Bernal Diaz is conspicuous, who never multiplies numbers. (p. 17.)

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