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Updated: June 19, 2025


"Now, Bathalda," he said, "can you string this?" "No, my lord; nor can any other man." "I think it is about the strength of the bows we use at home," Roger said. "The stringing them is a matter of knack, as well as of strength." And, to the amazement of the Aztec, he strung the bow. "Now," said he, "let us make some arrows.

"Marina, do you take your friend to my private apartment, and bid Juan furnish him with a suit of clothes; and with armor, from that belonging to our friends who fell in the fights the other day. We will soon make a true cavalier of him." As soon as Roger was equipped, he went out to the steps of the palace, and presently descried Bathalda in the crowd.

He beckoned to him and, taking him into the garden, had a long talk with him. He would have rewarded him largely for his services, but Bathalda refused to accept anything. "I came at my lord's orders," he said; "and am rejoiced to have been of service to one who is at once so kind, so strong, and so valiant." "As you will. We shall have further opportunities of meeting, Bathalda.

The story of the defeat of a band of Montezuma's soldiers by the white man had been whispered abroad, and Cuitcatl had mentioned to his friends what he had heard, from Bathalda, of the mighty bow Roger had used; but when they saw the weapon with which he was now provided, their wonder was to a large extent mingled with incredulity.

As the head of the column approached, Roger threw oil' his Aztec cloak and, accompanied by Bathalda, issued from the wood and ran towards them, and in two or three minutes reached the horsemen who rode in the van. "Why, Sancho!" Cortez exclaimed, as Roger ran up. "Is it you? We all thought you had fallen in the fight on the causeway. I am glad to see that you are safe. How did you escape?"

Roger now told Cacama of the arrangement that had been made, that Bathalda should act as messenger between himself and Amenche; and said he doubted not that, on the following day, the man would present himself. "Have you any message to send to the queen?" he asked. "Tell her that I am well, and that I am delighted to hear she has left the palace before Cuicuitzca arrives.

Had he been short and slight, he would have disguised himself as a Mexican, and under the guidance of Bathalda, have made his way to the capital; but with a figure which would be instantly remarked, wherever he went, this would be impossible. He entered the palace, and sent in an urgent message to Malinche, who was nursing Cortez. She listened patiently to his narrative.

Roger shouted that he was a friend, who had escaped from the prison; and the Spaniards, in return, gave a shout of welcome. In another two minutes, the canoe lay alongside the causeway. Bathalda sprang on shore, and held the canoe while Roger lifted Amenche up, and stepped out. A dozen hands were held out to assist him to climb the slippery bank. His figure was known by them all.

"Still, they would not be on the lookout for us; and we might, therefore, pass through their country without being seen." "We might do so, my lord," Bathalda agreed. "At any rate," Roger said, "it seems to me that there would be more chance, in that direction, than in going straight forward.

Two or three times, at intervals of a week or ten days, Bathalda went down to Tlatlanquitepec, with a load of turkeys and other game slung on a pole over his shoulder, and returned with maize, flour, chocolate, and pulque, and other articles of food; and which was of much greater importance to Roger news of the white strangers.

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