The _cura_ aided us with advice, information, and helpers.

While we were in the village the _danza de la Conquista_ took place.

It is a popular play, with much dancing and music, and little action or dialogue, which celebrates the Conquest of Mexico by Cortez.
It was rendered in the shade of a great tree near the church.

In the first act, nine men and two girls took part; in the second act, there were many others.

The nine men and two girls represented Indians; they wore crowns with plumes of snow-white down; in their hands they carried a rattle, made from the fruit of a tree and a wand of white down, with which they beat time.