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returning till you have reached the head town of thefe Indians ! I will 

 go forward on foot and reconoitre with the infantry, give my horfe to 

 another foldier, and do you follow in the rear with the cavalry. By 

 heavens cries out Rangel, for he was a very loud talker, Bernal Diaz 

 gives good advice ; the lot is caft and we will march on. This was ac- 

 cordingly done, contrary to the inclination of feveral, and we advanced 

 in good order to Cimaton, the principal town, where we were faluted 

 as ufual with a flight of arrows, and then, on entry, found it abandon- 

 ed. We burned it in part, and took feveral Indians whom we difmif- 

 fed, defiring them to invite their neighbours to peace and amity; but 

 thofe we fent never returned to us. This enraged Rangel againft me, 

 and he fwore I fliould procure him Indians in the place of thofe who 

 had been liberated. To pacify him I was fain to go with thirty foldiers, 

 and wc picked up fome among the marfhes, whom I brought to him and 

 he difmifled, in hopes of inducing the refl to come in, but without ef- - 

 fed:. Thus ended the famous expedition againft the Zapotecans, and 

 fuch was all the fame Rangel acquired in the wars. In two years after- 

 wards we effeded the conqueft of thefe countries, the natives whereof 

 were converted to our holy faith, through the grace of God, and the 

 exertions of the reverend father Bartholome de Olmedo, who poor man 

 was at that time grown weak and infirm. Pity it was, for he was an 

 excellent minifter of the gofpel. 



Cortes had now colledted eighty thoufand crowns in gold, and 

 a golden culverin, which he named the Phcenix, and had caufed to 

 be made as a prefent for the Emperor, was finifhed. It was a fuperb - 

 piece of workmanfhip. The following motto was engraved on it. 



" Efta Ave nacio fin par; Yo en fervir os fin fegundo; 

 *' Y vos fin igual en el Mundo. 



The 



