[109] See _Hist. Cent. Am._, this series, i., 524-32. ‘Era estremado varon, mas no era para mandar, sino para ser mãdado, y era de edad de treinta y seis años, natural de cerca de Baeza ò Linares.... Tenia otras buenas codiciones, de ser franco.’ _Bernal Diaz_, _Hist. Verdad._, 177. ‘Era vn Hector en el esfuerço, para combatir persona por persona.’ _Id._, 240. ‘Natural que fue de Vbeda ò de Linares.’ _Id._, 241. ‘Da Baeza nell’Andaluzia. Era membruto, ombroso, e doppio.’ _Clavigero_, _Storia Mess._, iii. 8. ‘D’une laideur extrême; sa duplicité et sa fourberie le rendaient un homme peu sur,’ says Brasseur de Bourbourg, _Hist. Nat. Civ._, iv. 53, with his not unusual hasty elaboration. Portrait in _Prescott’s Mex._ (Mex. 1844), i. 421; also in _Zamacois_, _Hist. Méj._, iv. 254. [110] _Bernal Diaz_, _Hist. Verdad._, 240, 246; _Clavigero_, _Storia Mess._, iii. 8; Portrait and signature in _Carbajal Espinosa_, _Hist. Mex._, ii. 254, 686. Portrait in _Zamacois_, _Hist. Méj._, ii. 485, and in _Armin_, _Alte Mex._, 217. [111] Also written Ordás. ‘Natural de tierra de Campos.’ _Bernal Diaz_, _Hist. Verdad._, 246. Portrait in _Carbajal Espinosa_, _Hist. Mex._, ii. 192. [112] ‘Saucedo, natural de Medina de Rioseco; y porque era muy pulído, le llamavamos, el galan.’ _Bernal Diaz_, _Hist. Verdad._, 240. This captain joins later. [113] Bernal Diaz, _Hist. Verdad._, 240-7, gives a long list of notices of members of the expedition, many of whom will receive attention during the course of the narrative. [114] San Juan, Ante Portam Latinam. See also _Carta del Ayunt. de Vera Cruz_, in _Cortés_, _Cartas_, 9. Several authors, following Gomara, it seems, refer to one vessel as missing, but as this is identified with Escobar’s, sent, according to Bernal Diaz, on a special exploring expedition to Laguna de Términos, the view of the latter author is probably more correct. It is not likely that a captain would have sailed so far beyond the rendezvous, and there waited for weeks the chance arrival of the fleet. In _Tapia_, _Relacion_, in _Icazbalceta_, _Col. Doc._, ii. 557, are references yet more vague to a missing vessel. During the gale Morla’s vessel was struck by a wave, which unshipped her rudder. His signal of distress caused the flag-ship to heave to till daybreak. The rudder was then discovered floating close by, and tying a rope to his body, Morla leaped into the sea to aid in replacing it. _Gomara_, _Hist. Mex._, 16; _Las Casas_, _Hist. Ind._, iv. 458.