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"The next day about
ten o'clock we reached the fortified town called Quiahuiztlan, which stands
amid great rocks and lofty cliffs and if there had been any resistance
it would have been very difficult to capture it. Expecting that there would
be fighting we kept a good formation with the artillery in front and marched
up to the fortress in such a manner that if anything had happened we could
have done our duty.
We went half way through
the town without meeting a single Indian to speak to, at which we were
very much surprised, for they had fled in fear that very day when they
had seen us climbing up to their houses. When we had reached the top of
the fortress in the plaza near by where they had their cues and
great idol houses, we saw fifteen Indians awaiting us all clad in
good mantles, and each one with a brazier in his hand containing incense,
and they came to where Cortes was standing and fumigated him and all the
soldiers who were standing near and with deep obeisances they asked pardon
for not coming out to meet us, and assured us that we were welcome and
asked us to rest. And they said that they had fled and kept out of the
way until they could see what sort of things we were, for they were afraid
of us and of our horses, but that night they would order all the people
to come back to the town."
Bernal Diaz del Castillo,
The
Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, pages 89-90.
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Ball
Court
Eastern
Civic Section
Central
Cemetery
East
Cemetery
Pyramids
1 and 2
Building
3
LINKS:
Quiahuiztlan:
Ciudad, Cementerio y Fortaleza
