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were prepared, and advancing againft the enemy, they met them in aa 

 open fpace, and had a fevere fkirmifli, after which the enemy fell back 

 behind their works ; but Sandoval attacked them with fuch impetuofity 

 that he drove them completely away, forcing them to evacuate the 

 town. 



In this place was a very magnificent and extenfive garden, in 

 which Sandoval took his quarters for the night, and certainly it was a 

 beautiful one to behold; it contained a number of large and handfome 

 buildings, and fuch varieties that it was truly admirable, and fit for the 

 refidence of a great prince ; nor had our foldiers time to fee the whole of 

 it, for it was above a quarter of a league in length. I was not in this 

 adtion, being very ill by the wound of a lance, which I received in my 

 throat at the afl[air of Iztapalapa, the marks of which I carry to this day j 

 but I faw the garden about twenty days afterwards, when 1 accompa- 

 nied Cortes. Not having been on this expedition for the reafon I have 

 before afligned, as 1 was then almoft at death's door, I do not in my 

 narrative fay we, and us, but they, and them; but notwithftanding 

 that, all is true to the letter as I have related it, for the tranfad^ions of 

 an expedition are immediately known in quarters, nor is there any op- 

 portunity of adding to, or diminifliing the truth, as is fometimes the 

 cafe elfewhere. 



Sandoval thought it a good time to fummon all the neighbouring 

 diftridts to fubmiffion, which he accordingly did, but with very little 

 effedl, thofe of Acapiftlan, efpecially, anfwering by a defiance. This 

 made our allies of Chalco uneafy, as well knowing that they and the 

 Mexicans were only waiting until the return of the Spaniards, in order 

 to fall upon them. For feveral reafons it was necelTary therefore to hum- 

 ble thefe people, but a great difference of opinion exifted on, the fubjed:, 

 Sandoval was adverfe to any new expedition on account of the number 

 of his wounded, and the foldiers of Narvaez were adverfe, becaufe they- 

 difliked rifques of any kind; but our allies were for it, and Captain. 

 Luis Marin, a wife and valiant officer, ftrongly fupported them. As 



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