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eaftern part of that plain, remaining that night under the 

 open Jky, where the general himfelf, after the fatigue 

 and wounds he had received, kept guard in perfon for 

 their greater fecurity. The Spaniards were now not 

 more than four hundred and forty in number. Befides 

 thofe who had been flain in the engagements, preceding 

 the unfortunate night of their departure from Mexico, 

 there perifhed during it and the fix days following, as 

 Bernal Diaz, an eye-witnefs affirms, eight hundred and 

 feventy, many of whom having been made prifoners by 

 the Mexicans, w T ere inhumanly facrificed in the greater 

 temple of the capital. 



The next day, the 8th of July, 1520, they entered, 

 making ejaculations to heaven, and returning thanks to 

 the Almighty, into the dominions of Tlafcala, and arriv- 

 ed at Huejotlipan ( j), a confiderable city of that repub- 

 lic. They feared ftill to find fome change in the fideli- 

 ty of the TIafcalans, well knowing how common it is to 

 fee men abandoned in their misfortunes by their deareft 

 friends : but they were foon undeceived by meeting 

 with the mod fincere demonftrations of efteem and com- 

 pafiion for the difafters they had undergone. The four 

 chiefs of that republic had no fooner intelligence of their 

 arrival, than they came to Huejotlipan to pay their com- 

 pliments to them, accompanied by one of the principal 

 lords of Huexotzinco, and many of the nobility. The 

 prince Maxixcatzin, though feverely afflicted by the 

 death of his daughter, endeavoured to confole Cortes 

 with hopes of revenge, which he allured him he might 

 obtain from the courage of the Spaniards and the forces 

 of the republic, which from that time he promifed him, 



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(y) Huejotlipan is called by Cortes and Herrera Guslspan, by Bernal Diaz 



Gi/aliopar, and by Solis Guallpar, 



