The garrisons of Perote, Tlatlanquitepec, Xalapa, and Naulinco will all be in movement.

Naulinco is but some eight or ten miles away down the pass; and not only the soldiers, but every man in the town will be ordered out.

They will be posted as thick as blades of grass at the mouth of every valley leading down from the mountains.
"You have resisted the emperor's officers, and have killed numbers of his soldiers.

They will know that the wrath of Montezuma will be terrible, if they fail to arrest you." "Then you think that it will almost be impossible to make our way through them ?" Bathalda nodded his head.
"And in time, I suppose, they will search these woods ?" "Every foot of them, wide though they are, my lord." "Then what is your advice, Bathalda ?" "It depends whether my lord's mind is altogether set upon joining the white men of the sea, at once." Roger, in turn, was silent for a time.

The Spaniards would have learned the wealth of the land.