[114] Ibid., ubi supra.--Gomara, Crónica, cap. 106.--Oviedo, Hist. de las Ind., MS., lib. 33, cap. 13.--Sahagun, Hist. de Nueva-España, MS., lib. 12, cap. 22.--Gonzalo de las Casas, Defensa, MS., Parte 1, cap. 26.--Bernal Diaz, Hist. de la Conquista, cap. 126. [115] Carta del Exército, MS. [116] “Están todas en el agua, y de casa á casa vna puente leuadiza, passalla á nado, era cosa muy peligrosa; porque desde las açuteas tirauan tanta piedra, y cantos, que era cosa perdida ponernos en ello. Y demas desto, en algunas casas que les poniamos fuego, tardaua vna casa en se quemar vn dia entero, y no se podia pegar fuego de vna casa á otra; lo vno, por estar apartadas la vna de otra el agua en medio; y lo otro, por ser de açuteas.” Bernal Diaz, Hist. de la Conquista, cap. 126. [117] “The Mexicans fought with such ferocity,” says Diaz, “that, if we had had the assistance on that day of ten thousand Hectors, and as many Orlandos, we should have made no impression on them. There were several of our troops,” he adds, “who had served in the Italian wars, but neither there nor in the battles with the Turk had they ever seen anything like the desperation shown by these Indians.” Hist. de la Conquista, cap. 126. See, also, for the last pages, Rel. Seg. de Cortés, ap. Lorenzana, p. 135,--Ixtlilxochitl, Relaciones, MS.,--Probanza á pedimento de Juan de Lexalde, MS.,--Oviedo, Hist. de las Ind., MS., lib. 33, cap. 13,--Gomara, Crónica, cap. 196. [118] Herrera, Hist. general, dec. 2, lib. 10, cap. 9.--Torquemada, Monarch. Ind., lib. 4, cap. 69. [119] Bernal Diaz, Hist. de la Conquista, cap. 126.--Oviedo, Hist. de las Ind., MS., lib. 33, cap. 13.--Gomara, Crónica, cap. 107. [120] Cortés sent Marina to ascertain from Montezuma the name of the gallant chief, who could be easily seen from the walls animating and directing his countrymen. The emperor informed him that it was his brother Cuitlahua, the presumptive heir to his crown, and the same chief whom the Spanish commander had released a few days previous. Herrera, Hist. general, dec. 2, lib. 10, cap. 10. [121] “¿Que quiere de mí ya Malinche, que yo no deseo viuir ni oille? pues en tal estado por su causa mi ventura me ha traido.” Bernal Diaz, Hist. de la Conquista, cap. 126. [122] Bernal Diaz, Hist. de la Conquista, ubi supra.--Ixtlilxochitl, Hist. Chich., MS., cap. 88. [123] Acosta reports a tradition that Guatemozin, Montezuma’s nephew, who himself afterwards succeeded to the throne, was the man that shot the first arrow. Lib. 7, cap. 26.