This made our work easy, indeed.

In one respect, Tlaxcala differs from all the other Mexican states with which we are acquainted.

Most of the people live in very little towns, which cluster around the larger places.

Thus, around the capital city, Tlaxcala, there are some seventeen of these small pueblos.
Working at the palace, we had secured almost no women for measurement.
Asking the advice of the _cura_, in the matter, he recommended that we should go to some one of the neighboring indian villages; that he would give us a letter to the _juez_ and that, thus, we would secure our subjects easily.

He suggested San Estevan and wrote the promised letter to the _juez_ of that village.