[170] _Monarq. Ind._, i. 390. ‘Valdria el oro y la plata que allí habia 20 ó 25,000 castellanos, pero la hermosura dellas y la hechura, mucho más.’ _Las Casas_, ubi sup. ‘Podia valer este presente veynte mil ducados, o pocos mas. El qual present tenian para dar a Grijalua.’ _Gomara_, _Hist. Mex._, 42. ‘Q’lo reparta cõ los Teules que cõsigo trae,’ says Bernal Diaz, _Hist. Verdad._, 27, intimating that another present was coming for the white emperor; but it was applied to the expedition treasury like nearly everything obtained by trade or seizure. _Herrera_, dec. ii. lib. v. cap. v; _Vetancvrt_, _Teatro Mex._, pt. iii. 115. Brasseur de Bourbourg estimates the gold disk alone at 357,380 francs. _Hist. Nat. Civ._, iv. 85. Peter Martyr, dec. iv. cap. ix., gives a detailed description of several of the presents. [171] This time the presents for the chiefs were some embroidered shirts, silk sashes and other things, while to the emperor he sent a Florentine goblet, gilt and enamelled with figures, three Holland shirts, and some bead articles, not a very costly return for what he had received. Bernal Diaz, _Hist. Verdad._, 27, and Herrera, dec. ii. lib. v. cap. vi., enumerate the presents given to them. ‘Teudilli ... le rogo mucho, q pues estaua mal aposentado en el cãpo y arenales, se fuesse con el a vnos lugares seys o siete leguas de alli.’ But Cortés declined to leave the camp. _Gomara_, _Hist. Mex._, 43. [172] ‘Y aquel oro que rescatauamos dauamos â los hombres que traiamos de la mar, que iban â pescar, â trueco de su pescado.’ _Bernal Diaz_, _Hist. Verdad._, 27. If so it was probably after the Indians deserted. [173] Gomara refers to an order to stop all barter for gold, with a view to let it appear that the Spaniards cared not for the metal, and thus to induce the Indians to make no secret of the manner in which it was obtained. _Hist. Mex._, 39. As if the natives had not already learned what we wanted, sneers Bernal Diaz. [174] ‘Que se dezia Quintalbor, no bolvió mas, porque auia adolecido en el camino.’ _Bernal Diaz_, _Hist. Verdad._, 27. [175] According to Gomara, _Hist. Mex._, 45, Cortés told the governor that he would not leave without seeing Montezuma. Solis elaborates this as usual into a long speech, to which Teuhtlile replies with threats, and turning his back stalks out of the camp. _Conq. Mex._, i. 153-5; _Herrera_, dec. i. lib. v. cap. vi. CHAPTER IX. THE MIGHTY PROJECT IS CONCEIVED. MAY, 1519.