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Show • . ' :aooK IX. '-""'Y---1 S P. C To XXVIII. War of ~auhquc· . chollau. . ' H I S T 0 R y 0 F M E X I C O. T . . . t which the Spaniards entered triumphant, after gaining epeJacacl~ 1111 ol !i . d'ffi lt than that of Zacatepec. From Acatzinco a battle Itt e e s J cu 1 . 1 b 1 d Cortes fent detachments to burn feveral places in t 1a~ nelg 1. ~~ur 100 , 't d to fubjetl: others to his obedience; and when lt ap~eal ed to be ~i~ne to . attack t~e principal city, he fct out with all hts al:~y for T . wl1erc he entered without any rdiO:ancc from the Citizens. epeJacac, · b fl Here he ·declared many prifoners taken in. that pro~mce to e . aves, and .made the mark of a feal upon them Wlt~ a hot tron, accordmg to the 'barbarous cufiom of that century, allottmg the fifth ~art of them to the king of Spain, and dividing the refi among the Spamar?s and the 11. . I:...re fiounded there according to the man ner of fpeakmg of the a 1es. :-1. ' J " F' Sp am·a r d s ·11 1 tl1 0 1r1e days ' a• city which he cal• led• Segura •u cua ro• fni tera. , the founding of which con6fied in eO:abhflnng Spandh mag1 rates there, and erctl:ing a fmall fortification ( b ·) . . The Mexican troops, garrifoned in that provmce, r:treated. from 1t, not having fufticient firength to refill: the power of the1r enetmes; but, at the fame time, there appeared at the city of ~auhquechollan (c), .difiant about four miles from Tepejacac, towards the fouth, an_ army , 0f Mexicans fent there by king Cuitlahuatzin, to hinder the pafiage of the Spaniards by that quarter to tht capital,. if they n?": fl1ould attempt it. ~auhquechollan was a confiderable c1ty, contauun?' fro~ five to fix thoufand families, pleafantly fituated, and not lets fortified by nature than by art. It was natura1ly defended on one {ide ~y a .il:ecp rocky mountain, and on another fide by two parallel runmng nvcrs. The whole of the city was furrounded. by a firong wall of fione and .lime, about twenty feet high and twelve broad, with a brean:-work all round, of about three feet in height. There were but four ways to enter, at thofe places where the extremities of the wall were doubled, forming two fetnicircles, as we have already reprefen ted in the fignrc given in our eighth book. The difliculty of the entrance was increafcd by the elevation of the fite of the city, which was almoil: equal to the height of the wall itfdf; fo that in order to enter, it was neceifary to afcend by fome very deep fieps. (b) The city gf T cpcjncnc, or Tepenc~, ~s the Spnni:mlo call ir, is Oill cxi!ling; hut the mme of S1-gtn·n rle//11 Frolllct'fl w:u Coon forgotten. Charles V. g:wc it the title nnd honoLll' of Spanifh City in '545• At prefcnt, it belongg to the marttuifatc of the valley. (r) ~auhqu cc hollan is called by the Spnni:m.h Gunquccchula, or Huacttch11/n. At prefcnt, it is :q1lcafant Indian village, ab\Junding with good fruits, The H I S T 0 R Y 0 F 1\-1 E X I C 0. The lord of that city, who was partial to the Spaniards, fent an embaify to Cortes, declaring his fubmifiion to the king of Spain, who had been already acknowledged fovereign of all that land, in the celebrated aifembly held by king Montezuma with the Mexican nobility, in the pre fence of Cortes; that, although defirous, he was not permitted by the Mexicans to manifeft his fiddity; that, then there were a great number of Mexican officers in ~auhquechollan, and thirty thoufand men of war partly in that city, partly in the places around it, for the purpofe · of preventing any confederacy with the Spaniards: neverthelefs, he requefied him to come to his a.ffill:ance, and free him from the vexations which he fufiered from thofc troops. Cortes was pleafed with the intelligence, and itmnediately fcnt with the fi1me meifengers a party of thirteen hodes, two hundred Spaniards, and thirty thoufand auxiliary troops, under the command of captain Olid. The meifengers, ac- . cording to the order of thdr lord; undertook to conduct the army by a way little travelled, and apprifed captain Olid .that when they came near to the city, the ~auhquechellans were to at'tack with fome armed bodies the quarters of the Mexican officers, and to endea-Vour to fei.ze or kill them, in order that when the Spanifh army entered 'the city, it might be eafy for theth to defeat the enemy without their leaders. But twelve miles before the army reached ~auhquechollan, the : Spanifh comm·ander became fufpicious that the Huexotzincas might be 1[ecretly confederated with the ~auhquechollans and the ·Mexicans; in 'order to defiroy the Spaniards. I is fufpicion, occafioned by fecret 'i nformation, and rende1'cd fiill more firong by the numbers of the 'F-Iuexotzincas, who of their own accord joined the army, obliged him · to return to Cholula, where he made fome of the mofi refpeCl:able per .. 'fons among the H ucxotzincas and the ambafradors of ~1auhq uechollan be fcized, and fent them under a {l:rong guard to Cortes, that he might ·make enquiry into this fuppofed firatagem. Cortes was extremely vexed at this proceeding againfl: fuch faithful · friends' as. the Huexotzincas: neverthelefs he carefully examined them, oifcovered" the innocence and fidelity' of both parties, and obferved, that the late difafiers had made the Spaniards more timorous, and that fear, as ufual, had induced them to carry their fufpicion farther than was proper or neccifary. He gave kind treatment and made pr~fent ' to the VoL. n; s ~auh- |