The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-04-28
CHAPTER XIV
Of How We Rested Twenty-Five Days at
Tlascala, and OF Our Messages to Villa
RIGA and the Answers from There, and
of the Ill-Will of Xicotenga ell Mozo
Toward Us

After we had arrived at the capital oil
Tlascala and were treated as | have re-
lated, it appears that Cortes asked for
the gold which he had sent there. which
was $4,000, being the share of those
who remained in Villa RIGA, Massi- Escassi,
der who had remained in Tlascala replied
that there had come from Villa
RIGA one Juan de Alcantara and
two others and that it had been
given to them and they carried it
away because they showed a letter from
Cortes so authorizing them. And the
soldier showed the letter which
had been retained by MASH Escassi when
he had given them the gold. And when
he inquired as to the time. and we found
that it was at the same time the MeXcans
had attacked us, we knew then how they
had been killed on the road and the gold
recaptured, and Cortes felt very sad over
this matter.
We also felt very anxious about those
whom we had left in Villa Rica. lest they
might have been attacked and slain.
Presently we sent them letters by three
Tlascalans telling them Of what had occur
led in Mexico and of the numbers of
those who were dead and warning them
to be watchful
if there were any able soldiers among
them to send them to us and to watch
Narvaez and Salvatierra we'll. and to send
us all the powder and crossbows they
could spare, and to let no ship sail for
Cuba but that if either of the two that
remained in the port were unseaworthy to
sink it and to send the sailors to us with
all the arms they could find.
The messengers went and returned, and
brought letters saying that they at Villa
Rica had not been,attacked and that thew
already knew of the disaster which had
befallen us. for the Cacique Gordo of Gem
poal had informed them thereof; and Pc
dro Caballero, the Admiral of the port.
wrote, saying that he had done as Cortes
commanded and that one of the ships be-
ing unsafe he had sunk it, and had sent
us those of the sailors who were not sick.
And when this succor arrived we found
that it consisted of seven men, and for
Captain of them came Il soldier named
LenCerO.
we laughed at them and made u Jest of it,
saying: The succor of Lencero, five men
i'll with the fever and scarcely able towalk'
But we will leave testing and tell how
we met Xicotenga ell MoZo in Tlascala
and soon had evidence of his i'll will. We
learned that as soon as he knew that we
had fled from Mexico and were coming
towards Tlascala for protection he had
called together his friends and relatives
ana advised that at some favorable mo.
ment they should fall on us ami Stay us
all and make peace with the Mexicans.
And when Xicotengo ell Vieio heard of
it he rebuked him and told him that
what he had advised was wrong. and that
Massi Escassi or Chichimecatecle learned
of it they would kill him and all CON
cerned in it. But the more he rebuked
him the more persistent he was, and
finally it came to the ears OF MASH
Escassi and Chchimecatecle, who was
the mortal enemy of Nicotenga ell Mozo
and they called Xicotenga ell Viejo and
the Caciques of Guaxocingo together ard
caused Xicotenga ell Mozo TO be brought
before them; and when MASH Escassi
reasoned with them and asked them if
they recollected or had ever heard of any
time for The past hundred years when
Tlascaa was in such prosperous or rich
a state as since the Teules had come to
their territories, that since that time
they had had plenty of gold and cotton
cloth and that they had eaten salt. which
up TO tnat time they had not been able to