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had been engaged. But I declare I never knew what fear was, until 

 I faw the maflacre of the feventy two foldiers. Let thofe cavahers who 

 have been in defperate battles and mortal dangers now decide what was 

 the caiife of my fears; I fay that it was excefs of courage; and for this 

 reafon; that I knew the greatnefs of the danger into which I was deter- 

 mined to go, and knowingly, and voluntarily, encountered it. Many 

 engagements are related in my hiftory befides thofe I was at; Ixit if my 

 body were of iron, I could not have been at all; and I was much of- 

 tener wounded than wliole. 



I mufl: obferve, that the Mexicans did not kill our foldiers, but 

 wounded, and carried them off, to facrifice aliA/e, to their gods. 



