[214] ‘Monteçuma tenia pensamiẽnto, ... de nos auer todos á las manos, para que hiziessemos generacion, y tambien para tener que sacrificar.’ _Bernal Diaz_, _Hist. Verdad._, 28. [215] ‘Carcerati nelle loro gabbie,’ is the way Clavigero puts it. _Storia Mess._, iii. 28. One was even whipped for resisting. [216] ‘Porque no se les fuesse alguno dellos á dar mandado á Mexico,’ is Bernal Diaz’ reason for it. _Hist. Verdad._, 32. [217] ‘Condotta artifiziosa, e doppia,’ etc., says Clavigero, _Storia Mess._, iii. 28, while Solis lauds it as ‘Grande artífice de medir lo que disponia, con lo que rezelaba: y prudente Capitan.’ _Hist. Mex._, i. 186. [218] ‘Desde alli adelante nos llamaron Teules,’ says Bernal Diaz, with great satisfaction. _Hist Verdad._, 32. ‘A los Españoles llamaron _teteuh_, que quiere decir dioses, y los Españoles corrompiendo el vocablo decian _teules_, el cual nombre les duró mas de tres años,’ till we stopped it, declaring that there was but one God. _Motolinia_, _Hist. Ind._, i. 142-3. See note 16. CHAPTER X. MULTIPLICATION OF PLOTS. JUNE-JULY, 1519. CORTÉS, DIPLOMATE AND GENERAL—THE MUNICIPALITY OF VILLA RICA LOCATED—EXCITEMENT THROUGHOUT ANÁHUAC—MONTEZUMA DEMORALIZED—ARRIVAL OF THE RELEASED COLLECTORS AT THE MEXICAN CAPITAL—THE ORDER FOR TROOPS COUNTERMANDED—MONTEZUMA SENDS AN EMBASSY TO CORTÉS—CHICOMACATL ASKS AID AGAINST A MEXICAN GARRISON—A PIECE OF PLEASANTRY—THE VELAZQUEZ MEN REFUSE TO ACCOMPANY THE EXPEDITION—OPPORTUNITY OFFERED THEM TO RETURN TO CUBA, WHICH THEY DECLINE THROUGH SHAME—THE TOTONACS REBUKED—THE CEMPOALA BRIDES—DESTRUCTION OF THE IDOLS—ARRIVAL AT VILLA RICA OF SALCEDO—EFFORTS OF VELAZQUEZ WITH THE EMPEROR—CORTÉS SENDS MESSENGERS TO SPAIN—VELAZQUEZ ORDERS THEM PURSUED—THE LETTERS OF CORTÉS—AUDIENCIA OF THE EMPEROR AT TORDESILLAS.