Table 2. Smallpox Anecdotes in Motolinía, Gómara and Díaz
| description | Motolinía | Gómara | Díaz |
| Cempoala ("esta tierra") | |||
| plague | yes | - | - |
| Black slave as source | yes | yes | yes |
| "pegar" (Indians) | yes | yes | yes |
| slept and ate together | - | yes | - |
| great sickness | yes | yes | - |
| great mortality | - | - | yes |
| some provinces, half | yes | yes | - |
| did not know the remedy | yes | - | - |
| bathe often | yes | yes | yes |
| no one to make bread | yes | yes | - |
| everyone in a house | yes | yes | - |
| pulled the houses down on them | yes | yes | - |
| covered with the pox | yes | - | yes |
| leprous | yes | yes | - |
| filled with holes | yes | yes | - |
| Tlaxcala: Cortés' appointing leaders (Maxixcatzin) | |||
| Maxixcatzin | - | yes | yes |
| many leaders died of smallpox | - | yes | yes |
| pox so common | - | - | yes |
| Indians from distant lands | - | - | yes |
| Entry to the Valley of Mexico | |||
| smallpox weakened warriors | - | - | yes |
| Tenochtitlán | |||
| Cuitlahuatzin died from smallpox | - | yes | yes |
| Chalco | |||
| leader died of smallpox | - | - | yes |