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able funeral, and Cortes and the other officers put themfelves into 

 mourning. Thus died Garay in a diftant country, a ftrange houfe, and 

 far from his wife and children. As to his armament, being 'now left 

 without any head a competition arofe for the command, between Juan 

 de Grigalva, Gonzalo de Figueroa, Alonzo de Mendoza, Lorenzo de 

 Alloa, Juan de Medina, Juan de Villa, Antlionio de la Cerda, and a 

 certain Tobarda the mofl feditious fellow in the whole army. The 

 young Garay however was ultimately made general, contrary to the in- 

 clination of every foldier ; the confequence of which was, that they fepa- 

 rated in fmall bodies of fifteen or twenty, and went through the coun- 

 try pillaging as if they had been amongil Moors. This enraging the 

 Indians they laid a plot to cut all the Spaniards off, which they fo ef- 

 fedually executed, that in a few days they had facrificed and eaten more 

 than five hundred of Garay's foldiers. In fome towns upwards of a 

 hundred Spaniards were facrificed together. In other places they fell on 

 and mafiacred thefe wanderers without refiflance, and encouraged there- 

 by, they rofe againft the. fettlement of St. Eftevan in fuch numbers, 

 that it was with great difficulty they could be kept out of it, nor would 

 they have been, but for feven or eight of the veterans of Cortes, who 

 fupported Vallejo, a brave man, and experienced officer. Thefe gallant 

 veterans induced many of Garay's Spaniards to abide by them in the 

 open field, being obliged to fight three battles, in one of which Vallejo 

 was killed, and many were wounded. So defperate did the Indians 

 grow, that one night they killed and burned forty Spaniards and fifteen 

 horfes, and among the foldiers who were killed were feveral of thofe 

 of Cortes. 



When the general heard of thefe outrages he was exceedingly dif- 

 pleafed, and determined to go in perfon to fupprefs themj but being at 

 that moment prevented, having broken his arm by accident, he dif- 

 patched Gonzalo de Sandoval, with one hundred infantry, fifty cavalry, 

 two pieces of artillery, and fifteen arcabufiers, to whom he joined eight 

 thoufand Mexicans and Tlafcalans, with orders not to quit thofe dif- 



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