The magazine of American history with notes and queries . rom those they deemed morepowerful than themselves, we cannot forget that in the time of the Inqui-sition Christian parents delivered up their own children to the torturer andexecutioner, in order to propitiate the dreaded Inquisitors and please theAlmighty God. Those who had so kindly received the monks were now enraged, remind-ing them of their promise that no Christians would trouble their people, THE CONQUEST OF THE MAYAS 459 and asking why they had destroyed their gods, which were certainly betterthan these new ones. The friars tri
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . rom those they deemed morepowerful than themselves, we cannot forget that in the time of the Inqui-sition Christian parents delivered up their own children to the torturer andexecutioner, in order to propitiate the dreaded Inquisitors and please theAlmighty God. Those who had so kindly received the monks were now enraged, remind-ing them of their promise that no Christians would trouble their people, THE CONQUEST OF THE MAYAS 459 and asking why they had destroyed their gods, which were certainly betterthan these new ones. The friars tried to pacify them, told the soldiersthat they were doing an immense amount of evil, and besought them todepart. Instead, they strove to make the monks appear responsible, per-suading the natives that the whole thing had been arranged by them, thusimperiling the lives of those unarmed men; for the indignant peoplewished to put them to death, and they had to flee, though afterward theirwould-be executioners sent messengers a hundred and fifty miles to beg. THE HOUSE OF MONTEJO, AT IN 1549, THE FRONT COSTING $14,000. that they would forgive their wicked purpose and return. They did, andwere received as if they had been angels, but so often were they endan-gered by the conduct of their countrymen, that at the end of six monthsthey thought it safer to go and live in Mexico. Although Montejo had spent all his fortune in the attempt, he now hadno hope of getting any hold upon Yucatan. Nevertheless in 1537 heagain managed to obtain what was needed for another effort, and reachingChampoton put his son in command, he himself returning to Tabasco,whose people he was also endeavoring to bring under the Spanish yoke. 460 THE CONQUEST OF THE MAYAS Great was the sorrow of the natives at seeing another crowd of Span-iards landing in their country, but they disguised their feelings until somedays had elapsed, then came in a multitude to exterminate the enemy, ifpossible. They seize
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