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Show 154 S•cT. XT. ConqucO of Xochimilco. H I S T 0 R y 0 F M E X I CO. . d'bl ber· of arrows darts, and fl:ones at h r. ·a t n mere J e num , nahuac e.c 10 a Tl r. 1 11::wing obferved, that two great B ourageous a.ca an , them. ut a c r: fides of the ho1low inclining towards } · -1 grew on the opponte 1 1 t tJc;:es, w uc 1 . d d t lly interwoven their branc 1es, ne l I 1 d c.:rofle an mu ua eac 1 ot 1er, 1a [:· tl e ot!Jer fide. and his example was l · d f them to pa s to 1 •· 1~1ade a m ge 0 h, . 1 . t diHiculty and with great danger, . kl [! llowed thoug Wtt1 gtea d Tl [. qmc Y 0 ' . d f . . ·ds by many Spaniards an a - "' [J Spanifh foldlers, an a ter w.u I d c. d d '<YI tX ( ') Tht.s att o f'.m t!.e pl·c l'' ty trc0 intimicl,Hed thofe w 10 eten e c;a ,a:~a~ll~ in that quarter, that they immediately retr~ated, and went t~ ·t h·~ the other c1. t.1 zens, w1 1 0, a t another part of the ctty,. werhe odp p~o fing JOlO C . . 1 t while moO: employed 111 t e ei'ence, t~ e troops led by 01 tes • Jll 1 11 f nd themfdves unexpectedly attncked by thofe tt'oops, w 10, tf o,lCllYo wm~ug t1 1a t . ·. s Tl~fcahn were now entered by the unde- COlli agcou ' ' . r: 11. . h ' t Terror made the citizens gtve up rennance, fended part mto t e Cl Y· . · 1 '1 1 ' fl' ht 'pi tat ely through the moun tams; w 11 e t 1e and put them to tg pre~1 . . f the cit . The al)ies . without any oppofit10n, bv)."ncd a gteat pat to y . 'l o·r d ' of 1. t, w1 1 0 h ad fl ed W·l th the refi: ' fearing to be overtak· en 1f11 q1e mountam. s by the Spania' rds ' took occafion to furrend· er lu·1m fd1 , 'de c 1a n.n· g tl 1a t he llad not done it before becaufe h.e watted· ttbl ·t le . f the Spaniards iliould be exhauil:ed on the Clty, and by emg 1 ao-e o ' · 1 · f1 fi1~sfied with other hoftilities, might abfl:ain from treatmg liS per on .. cruellv. d · 1 r. ·1 Af~er fume repofe the army left ~auhnahuac, loade w1t 1 1p_o1 s,. diretting their way towards the north, through a larg~ wood of pmes, w,here they endured a great t~1ir~, and th~ day fol~owm? found th~:n- · felves ncar the city of Xochumlco. Thts beauttful c1ty, the 1at gefl: 11cxt to the three royal refidences of all thofe in the Mexican vale, was fo~nded upon the border of the lake of Chalco, a little more than. twelve miles difl:ant from the capital: its inhabitat~ ts were numero_us,. it.s temples many, its buildings magnificent, ~nd its .gardens flo::tt~ng on the_ lake fingular1y beautiful, from whence 1t took Its name of Xo-· ( ') Solis without m:~king mention ot th:u Tlafcalan, attrib\ltes all the glo1·y of th at aC!ion. 10 ' Btr~·tl• Dia~ . iu which pnt·ticular he contradicts Cor1es, and other hiOorian~. Berna l l~1a7, himf~lf who' in the (elation of this event, docs himfclf all the honour h can, boaOs ot having been 0 ;1e of 1 tbofc who did not regard the rifk. of their lives, .:md ~aficd tt:c depth 01~ ~:~~ branches of the rrees ; but by no means taJc.cs the honour to hunfclt of havwg been the li · w\\'! pafi'L'<i or fu ggcilccl the attempt. chimilco .. H I S T 0 R y · 0 F ME X I C 0. chimilco (2:): it had, like the capital, n~any canals or ditches, "..., nd rrc:0 1• tB..O-.O-yK- -X.1. fe:1r of the Spat1iarcls, they had now fl!vcral entrenchments. As foon as they faw tire enemy :1pproa h, they raifcd the bridges of the canals, to make the entry more diilicult. The Spani<lrds divided their· army into three fquadrons, to attack the <:ity by as m:1ny places, but every where they met with a O:out refiibnce, and could not take the fir!l: ditch until after a terrible engagement of more than half an hour, ~11 which two Spaniards were kill~d and nuny wounded; but having ;\t ]afi: overcome thofe obfi:aclcs, they entered the city, purfuing rhe itt-habitants, who perfevered till night, fighting in the ve!Tel in which they had made their retre.tt. They frequently heard voices among tHe c· mbatants who demanded peace, but the Sp:1niards nndet:fl:,uid i;Jg that thofe cril!s were made with no other view than to gain time to place their families and goods in fecurity, and to receive the fuccour which they expeCted from M<.!xico, preffed them fiill harder; until, finding· all refiflance dropt, they retired to repofc and cnre the wounded: but they had hardly began to draw their breath a little, when they faw themfdves attacked by a great number of enemies, who came formed in. order of battle by the Dune road by which the Sp:miards had entered. They were now reduced to g reat diH!cultics, and Cortes himfelf was in imminent danger of becoming a pri(oner of the enemj; for his J10rfe h:1ving fallen from f<Higuc, as he £1ys, or being cut down by th~ llows from the Xochimilcas, as fomc hiO:orians report, he continued ligh ting on fi)ot with his lance; but being overpowc:red by the' enemy, he ~ould not have been able to have f<wed himfclf from ruin, if a brav9 TlafcaLm (/), and after him two of his own ferv•mts, had not feafon~ ably come to his relief. The Xochimilcas leing at Jail: defeated, the Sp:1niards had leifitre to repofe a little after the f:uigues of the day, in which {ome of their fold.icrs had been killed, and almoJl all of them wounded, and the general himfclf and the principal officers Alvarado and Olid among the rdl. U) Xn~·J.,imi/,·o means "'Oil'llcns :1nd fi<'lds of flowers. (I) Hcrrcrn und Torqucmada Cny, that tho day after the great hazard Cortes had been in of bein g- made prifon ol', lw ltHig·ht for tho Tlufc:clan who hatlrc!i:ueJ him, but coulJ not find him , either dead or nlivt'; on which uccnunt, from the devotion which the gcu~ral paid tu St, Peter, he Lccnm~ llOrfuadcJ that, that npolllc had be~ n the pc1-fon who li1ved hi.m. X 2 Four |