[193] According to Bernal Diaz, _Hist. Verdad._, 30, gold played an important role in effecting this change of allegiance, termed by Velazquez, in his Memorials to Spain, a witchery. Solis sees nothing but the dignified yet clever traits of his hero in all this. [194] The soldiers called them Lopelucios, because their first inquiry was Lopelucio, ‘chief,’ whom they wished to see. They had not ventured to approach while the Mexicans were at the camp. _Bernal Diaz_, _Hist. Verdad._, 28. [195] According to Gomara, followed by Herrera, the Totonacs were about twenty in number, and came while Teuhtlile was absent on his second mission to Mexico, without bringing a direct invitation to the Spaniards. _Hist. Mex._, 43-4. [196] See _Native Races_, v. 475-7. [197] _Ixtlilxochitl_, _Hist. Chich._, 288. This author is not very careful, however, and his desire to court the Spaniards has no doubt led him to antedate the event. Brasseur de Bourbourg accepts his story in full. _Hist. Nat. Civ._, iv. 87-8. A similar revelation is claimed to have been made by two Aztec chiefs, Vamapantzin and Atonaltzin, who came to the camp in the retinue of the first messengers from Mexico. Descendants of the early Aztec kings, and discontented with the present ruler, they promised Cortés to deliver certain native paintings foretelling the coming of white men, to reveal the whereabouts of the imperial treasures, and to plot an uprising among native states in aid of Spaniards. For these services they received extensive grants after the conquest, including that of Ajapusco town. The document recording this is a fragment which Zerecero parades in the opening part of his _Mem. Rev. Méx._, 8-14, as a discovery by him in the Archivo General. It pretends to be a title to Ajapusco lands, and contains on the first pages a letter signed by Cortés at San Juan de Ulua, ‘20 March,’ 1519, as ‘Captain-general and governor of these New Spains.’ Both the date and titles stamp the letter at least as more than suspicious. [198] The natives called it Citlaltepetl, starry mountain, with reference probably to the sparks issuing from it. For height, etc., see _Humboldt_, _Essai Pol._, i. 273. Brasseur de Bourbourg gives it the unlikely name of Ahuilizapan. _Hist. Nat. Civ._, iv. 99. The ending ‘pan’ implies a district or town, not a mountain. The description in _Carta del Ayunt._, in _Cortés_, _Cartas_, 22-3, expresses doubt whether the whiteness of the summit is due to snow or to clouds.