The herald., 1895-04-28

in sign thereof receive this banner Of
/ gold. AMI me Degs oi you that you "
| order the Tlascalans ana your brothers
that they do no infamy to his people
and that he will furnish you with quar-
tiers and everything necessary for your
forces at the Capital
When Cortes heard this he was highly
pleased and he embraced the messengers,
| especially three of them who were rela-
| tves OF the good Montezuma. and we all
recognized them as having been three of
| his Captains. When the message had been
considered Cortes called the chiefs of the
| ilascalans and ordered them strictly not
to do any injury to the people OF 1ezcuco.
He then took council with our Captains
and it seemed to them that these profess
| SONS OF peace y ere false because the
messengers of peace brought no presents
and no food But Notwithstanding, he
received the banner which was worth
about eighty dollars, and thanked the
| messengers and told them that he was
not accustomed to do any injury to the
vassals of our lord the King, but on the
| contrary he was accustomed to pot CT
and favor them, and that if they behaved
they promised to, he would protect them
| against the MeXicans. and That, as they
| had already seen, he ordered the Ilasca-
lans to do them no injury, but that he
well knew that III their city. when we re-
treated from Mexico, they mad slain over
| ioiVS DpaHldluo. Jul piotiiclH, az"
two hundred TIascaans. had that they
had stolen a large quantity of gold from
us, besides other things and that he be-
sought their Loro Cocoavicin and the
other captains ana OaclqueS TO return
us the gold ana clothing OF those VINO nnu
been Killed, ana that as TO the murueIsi
that was now past remedy, and he would
| pardon them.
The messengers replied that they would
inform their lord of what he had said, but
that he VINO commanded the kllnhg OF t,le
| Hpanlards was the hlhg OF MEXICO, Who
succeeueu Mon'eZuiha' ana tnaI nc ny
caused all me spoilS TO De brought 70
Mexico anu that those OF the Spanltrus
VINO had been taken alive had peeii ta ,S
| there ana sacrlnced TO liultZllpotzll. "heli
Cortes heard TINS reply ne told them 70
go III the name OF God and leave one o VI
thelr NUMBER win us. ana ,I we theli VIZ
TO one or the suburbs OF ieIcuco cailo '
"uathchan. where the lhhapltahts sare
us everything that we needed. ana there
we Threw uoWh some luols anu ,he Nv W.
morning early we went to Iezcuco. we
found neither women nor chllureh III Vll =
streets or IN the houses only, men, anu
they appeared IKE people Ihat llea i..
war. we TOOK up our quarters III soine
large houses put posted ourselves leau1
Tor an attack, 1or the Guy al3 10Y loG ',n
peacelul ana Oortes oruereu OrlsIooal We
vi ana fedro "e AlVarauo anu ooine .
other soluieTs ana llyseii uiiloiis liio ies'
10 60 ~ tnv s"i ai on U ver,ao(ed the
N.Y. M@' I +hn iarnnn and we took
Miloie oi'S an,. t,e ~ for a
amemty ,rioio ~, all no ;nhobitants
49,. nff tbeir honsahold effects and
~ tLa;ss ~ o "" omd chiidren some To the
rnelr WIVES ahu soma umeit ta Tho cenehraEes in
40 , any, d SUN th w bnio ln1onn was
ol,u ias1o, r;t ti,'' csn,,oe Wbe1 Cortes
Ioar,,oI +h; no snu,,b+ 70 t,ke prisoner
tEa Iord as 'rn1c,,c" Who had sent him
~ hn,', o IA ,rhen nertain Panas who
wiu 'nrisnnarn u,era can't tn call i'm he
go Tn y +ho,, foun1 mo had Aed to
oo' ~ Roo, ono of rho Very first
W. ~. and ,li' ,rit5 lin, Vent nearly all the
r ~ CIV ,r,on of Tho cit~ Tbat NIGHT
ira ,' TX onI ua,cL and tIe novt morning
to.+olP =. 80 49, ~ coii t,"atbei' a the princi9
III w., 10, nt t,,a ai+, TLo had not fled
pa, of +ba',, o;n', of . marty onnosed 10
t io vi VIZ IA 6ed For there had been
vnrid ,Ui difforeronS over the rioht of
~ 80 Ill
Cnrt ie.i' a ~ how lone and Inv what
49, Sotnnioin nv rei,ned and tbev re
,ja1 +I,at tI,r",,rb on,hit,on to rnle he
LA ,ranc,ern,,efy slain ~ elder brother
Conlavaco. who succeeded MonteZuma.
gave him the lordship, and that there
were others to whom more justly be-
lon pp1 the succession. and one Young man