Their gods were very powerful, and all prisoners taken in war were sacrificed to them.

They had rich mantles and clothing, and the Tabascans were but savages, in comparison.
Being asked how it was that she, who was a native of such a nation, came to be a slave among the Tabascans, she replied with tears that she had been sold.

Her father had been a rich and powerful cazique, of Painalla, on the southeastern borders of the Mexican kingdom.

He had died when she was very young, and her mother had married again, and had a son.

One night her mother had handed her over to some traders, by whom she had been carried away.