ABSTRACT
The Spaniards were too much jaded, and too many were disabled by wounds, to allow them to pursue; and Hernando Cortes, satisfied with the decisive victory he had gained, returned in triumph to his position on the hill of Tzompach. The Spaniards were allowed to repose undisturbed the following day, and to recruit their strength after the fatigue and hard fighting of the preceding. The naked body of the Indian afforded no resistance to the sharp Toledo steel; and with their good swords the Spanish infantry at length succeeded in staying the human torrent. Slowly and stealthily the Indians advanced, while the Christian camp, hushed in profound silence, seemed to them buried in slumber. The Spanish commander, with his usual policy after a decisive blow had been struck, sent a new embassy to the Tlascalan capital. Such was the costume of the Tlascalan warrior, and of that great family of nations generally who occupied the plateau of Anahuac.
