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Often appears with: siege and fortification · sacrifice and ritual · prayer and worship · human sacrifice · european claims of imperial authority · descriptions of aztec urban fortifications · christian missionary diplomacy
Usually: narrative (1) · the test or trial (1) · censure (1) · exhortation (1)
Cortés questions the Tlascalla ruler Olintecle, who describes Mexico’s fortifications and wealth, while Cortés demands an end to human sacrifices and orders (or delays) erecting a cross.
meet us with the principal inhabitants. His name was Olintecle, and he led us into his habitation, where he gave us but little to eat, and that with bad will. After the repast, Cortes, by means of our interpreters, put all manner of questions to the cazique respecting the affairs of his monarch. Motecusuma, and we learnt a good deal about the great armies which were stationed in the conquered provinces, besides thos…