She Was Always Faithful To The
Spaniards, To Whom Her Services Were Of The Very Highest Importance; As
She Not Only Was The Instrument Of Their Negotiations With The Various
Nations Of Anahuac, But Often Saved Their Lives By Giving Them Notice Of
Dangers, And Suggesting The Means Of Avoiding Them.
Don Martin Cortes, her
son, was afterwards most unjustly put to the torture at Mexico in 1568, on
some
Unfounded suspicion of intended rebellion, his iniquitous and
barbarous judges, paying no regard to the memory of the unequalled
services rendered by his parents to the Catholic king and the Spanish
nation.
We remained five days longer in Tabasco, taking care of our sick and
wounded, during, which time Cortes used his endeavours to conciliate the
natives, whom he enjoined to preserve their allegiance to his Catholic
majesty, by which they would secure his protection. They promised
faithfully to perform all that he had enjoined, and thus became the first
native vassals of the Spanish monarchy in New Spain. On Palm Sunday, with
the assistance of the natives, we erected a cross made of a large cieba
tree, on the field where the late battle was fought, as a lasting memorial
of our victory, as this tree has the power of reproducing its bark. The
natives attended us in our procession to adore the holy image of the cross,
and they likewise assisted us in our preparations to reimbark, our pilots
wishing to get away from this part of the coast, the anchorage being
unsafe for the ships, as the wind blew strongly on the shore.
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