The pleasant historie of the conquest of the VVeast India, now called new Spayne: atchieued by the vvorthy Prince Hernando Cortes, marques of the Valley of Huaxacac, most delectable to readeLópez de Gómara, Francisco
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The pleasant historie of the conquest of the VVeast India, now called new Spayne: atchieued by the vvorthy Prince Hernando Cortes, marques of the Valley of Huaxacac, most delectable to reade
López de Gómara, Francisco
Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547; Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540; Nahuatl language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
_Sandoual_ went vnto that place with determinate entët to follow his
cömission, & also before he came to y^e place, he found writtë in
a house w^t a cole, these words: here in this house was a prisoner
y^e vnfortunate _Iohn Iust_, who was a gentleman, and one of the
fiue horsemen that wer taken. But the people of that towne, being
many, fledde when they saw the Spaniardes approch neare vnto thë.
But _Sandoual_ followed them, and slewe many of them: he toke also
prisoners, manye women and children, who yelded themselues vnto his
mercie, and their bodies for slaues. He séeing so little resistance,
and beholding the pitiful mone of the wiues for their husbandes, and
the children for their fathers, had compassiö on them, and wold not
destroye their towne, but rather caused the dwellers to come again,
and pardoned them, with othe, that hereafter they shoulde serue them
truely, and be vnto them loyal friends. In this sorte was the death
of the Christians reuenged, yet _Sandoual_ asked them howe they slewe
so manye Christians without resistaunce, marye (quoth they) we made
an ambush in an euil and narrow way, ascending vp a hill, and there
as they went vppe by one and one we spoyled them, for there, neyther
horses nor other weapon could defend or help thë, so y^t we tooke them
prisoners and sente them to _Tezcuco_, where, as is before declared,
they were sacrificed in the reuengement of the imprisonment of
_Calama_.
Hovv the Vergantines vvere brought frö
_Tlaxcall to Tezcuco_.
Nowe when the enemies which murdered the Spaniardes, were reduced and
chastened, _Sandoual_ procéeded forwarde towarde _Tlaxcallan_, and at
the border of that prouince, he mette with the Vergätines whiche were
broughte in pieces, as tables, planches, and nayles, with all other
furniture, the whyche eight thousand men caryed vpon their backes.
There came also for their safeconduicte twentie thousande men of warre,
and a thousande _Tamemez_, who were the carriers of victuals, and
seruantes. Thë the Spanishe Carpenters sayde vnto _Sandoual_, that for
as muche as they were nowe come into the countrey of enimies, it might
please him to haue regarde thervnto, for daungers that myght happen: he
allowed wel theyr iudgement.
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