They never kill in battle if they can avoid it, striving only to take their enemies prisoners, for this horrible service.
"I must try, if I can, to make friends among them.

The old cazique of Tabasco stood by me well, and it may be that here I may find some like him; but it will need a powerful protector, indeed, to stand against the priests, who, Malinche says, are far more powerful here than in Tabasco." Three hours later an attendant came in, and said that the governor invited his guest to walk with him through the town, and survey the temples and other edifices.
"Now for it," Roger said, clenching his fist.

"Now, Roger Hawkshaw, you have got to show yourself a true man, whatever comes of it." He fastened the sword, which was one of the weapons with which he had been presented, to his girdle; and then went out into the great hall, from which all the other apartments opened.

The governor and the two nobles from Tezcuco were awaiting him.
Upon sallying out, Roger found that the streets were as crowded as when he entered.

He was received with a long quavering cry of welcome by the women, and by a deeper hum of applause by the men.
All bent to the ground before him and his companions, before whom a party of soldiers moved to clear the way.
"Now, we will go first to the Great Temple," the governor said.