Wanderings in Mexico; the spirited chronicle of adventure in Mexican highways and byways . ala. History givesit a foremost place among the ancient Indian nations, andit occupies the unique one of never having yielded al-legiance to the great Montezuma. Many and fierce werethe battles between the heroic Tlaxcaltecas and theMexicanos, who wished to subdue them. The formerwere always victorious, and the little State retained itsindependence, until the coming of the Spaniards. Tlax-cala was a republic. The people, generally supposed tohave belonged, with the Aztecs, to the Nahuatl family,lived fir
Wanderings in Mexico; the spirited chronicle of adventure in Mexican highways and byways . ala. History givesit a foremost place among the ancient Indian nations, andit occupies the unique one of never having yielded al-legiance to the great Montezuma. Many and fierce werethe battles between the heroic Tlaxcaltecas and theMexicanos, who wished to subdue them. The formerwere always victorious, and the little State retained itsindependence, until the coming of the Spaniards. Tlax-cala was a republic. The people, generally supposed tohave belonged, with the Aztecs, to the Nahuatl family,lived first on the shores of Lake Texcoco; but owingto quarrels with the Aztecs and other neighboring king-doms, they migrated to the region now known as Tlax-cala, which is bounded by the states of Mexico, Puebla,Hidalgo and Veracruz. There they became a hardy,vigorous and independent people; repeatedly repelling theattacks of the other tribes, who frequently laid siege totheir stronghold. When Cortes reached the tableland, in his march tothe capital of Montezuma, he found it desirable to pass. THE MAN WHO LIKES MEXICO 245 through Tlaxcala; and he sent messengers to the capital,to ask the right of way. He met with a peremptory re-fusal, but he was determined to pass with or withoutpermission, and the result was a number of bloody bat-tles with the Tlaxcaltecas, in all of which the latter weredefeated with heavy losses. A treaty of peace was atlast effected, and the Spaniards, as friends and guests ofthe people, entered the city of Tlaxcala, which then occu-pied the hills above the site of the present town. Theywere met by multitudes at the gates of the city, whoshowered them with flowers and adorned their horsesnecks with garlands. One historian says a hundredthousand people came out to meet them; and Corteshimself, in a letter to the emperor, compared the citywith Granada, affirming that it was larger and morepopulous. It was divided into four quarters, separatedone from the other by
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