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order and to be prepared for accidents, and cautioned 

 the Indians not to obftruft the way nor come too near 

 the ranks, unlefs they chofe to be treated as enemies. 

 In Cuitlahuac they were well accommodated and enter- 

 tained. The lord of that city complained in fecret to 

 Cortes of the tyranny of the king of Mexico, entered 

 into a confederacy with him, and informed him of the 

 mod convenient way to go to the court, and the confter- 

 nation into which the oracles of the gods, the phenome- 

 na in the heavens, and the fuccefs of the Spanifti arms, 

 had thrown Montezuma. 



From Cuitlahauc they proceeded, by the other road 

 of the lake towards Iztapalapan, but in the way Cor- 

 tes was entertained with a new piece of good fortune. 

 The prince Ixtlilxochitl finding that Cortes was not to 

 make his journey through Calpolalpan, where he was 

 waiting for him, refolved to meet him on the road to 

 Iztapalapan : he marched with a coniiderable number 

 of troops, and palfed clofe to Tezcuco : this having 

 been known to the prince Coanacotzin, his brother, 

 who, fmce the rupture which, as we have already men? 

 tioned, happened three years before between them, had 

 been totally alienated from him, either moved by fra- 

 ternal affection, or led on by the hopes of the greater 

 advantages to be derived from the union of both their 

 interefts, came alfo to meet with him upon this road : 

 here they mutually exchanged fentiments, were recon- 

 ciled, and united together in order to make a confede- 

 racy with the Spaniards. They travelled together until 

 they came to Iztapalatenco, where they joined the 

 ftrangers. Cortes, upon feeing fo many armed troops, 

 was a little uneafy, but being informed of the rank of 

 the perfons who were come to find him, and the mo- 

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