We Entered The Town, However, Which Was Abandoned By The Enemy,
Yet Took Several Prisoners, Whom I Dismissed, With An Invitation To The
Chiefs To Come In And Make Peace With Us; But They Never Returned.
Rangel
was very angry at me on this account, and swore that he would make me
procure Indians for him, in place of those whom I had liberated.
To pacify
him, I went among the neighbouring marshes with thirty soldiers, where we
picked up several stragglers, whom we brought to him. But he dismissed
these likewise, in hopes to induce the rest to submit, yet all to no
purpose. Thus ended the two famous expeditions against the Zapotecans and
Cimatanese, and such was all the fame acquired by Rangel in the wars of
New Spain. Two years afterwards, we effected the conquest of both these
countries, the natives of which were converted to our holy religion, by
the grace of God, and through the exertions of Father Olmedo, now grown
weak and infirm, to the great regret of all who knew him, as he was an
excellent minister of the gospel.
Cortes had now collected 80,000 crowns in gold, and had caused a superb
golden culverin to be made as a present for the emperor, on which the
following motto was engraved:
_Esta ave nacio sin par: Yo en servir os sin segundo;
Y vos sin iqual en el Mundo_[1].
This sumptuous present was sent over to Spain under the care of Diego de
Soto.
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