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Upon the Occasions of these Journeys to and fro, Hernan Cortez order’d, That they should bring some Cordage, Sails, Nails, and other Spoils of the Ships which had been bor’d, with a Design to build two Brigantines, that he might command the Passage…

But when he understood that the Spaniards were already arrived in the Province of Chalco , and that his last Ambush in the Mountain had no manner of Effect, he grew uneasie, and impatient to the last Degree, not knowing what Measures to take.

You Choler, General, does unjustly rise, To see your Friends pursue your Enemies; The greatest and most cruel Foes we have Are these, whom you would ignorantly save. By ambush’d Men, behind their Temple laid, We have the King of Mexico betray’d.

He wished on the contrary to gain as speedily as possible the coasts that lay nearest the centre of the Great Empire of, intending there to commence the projected attack.

The Army marches to  Iztacpalapa; they make a Disposition for their Entry into Mexico.

‘the supineness of the Mexicans rendered his precaution useless: for, though nothing could have been more easy than to cut off his return to Mexico, and have prevented the sortie of the Spaniards he had left in the garrison, by simply destroying the…

We now returned to our former post, having buried our dead in one of the subterraneous dwellings already mentioned, filling and levelling it, that our loss should not be perceived by the enemy. How wretched and comfortless was our situation after our…