"They only want you for a sacrifice.

They think that a being so strange and rare as a white man would be, of all, the most acceptable victim to their god.
"My brother, do not let him go," and the girl burst into tears.
"My little sister," Cacama said tenderly, "you know that I am powerless in the matter.

In my grandfather's time, he would have answered a demand that a guest of his should be given up by a message of defiance; but times have changed since then, and the greater part of my kingdom no longer remains to me.

My brother, who disputed my right to the throne, reigns over a large portion of it.
Montezuma has seized fertile provinces.

I am little more than the lord of a city; and could offer no resistance, for a single day, to the power of the Emperor.
"But you must remember that, as yet, we do not know that the priests will decide against him.