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Updated: May 28, 2025
"I wish his kitchen were a little nearer the lines," replied the other, with a wink. "Senor Coronel, permit me " "What is it, my dear Don?" inquired the major. "Pasteles de Moctezuma." "Oh, certainly. I say, lads, I don't know what the plague I'm eating it's not bad to take, though." "Senor Coronel, allow me to help you to a guana steak." "A guana steak!" echoed the major, in some surprise.
Among the half-brutalised Tagnos, with bent limbs and downcast look, there were men who dreamt of days gone by; who knew that their fathers were once free; who in their secret assemblies in mountain cave, or in the deep darkness of the "estufa," still burned the "sacred fire" of the god Quetzalcoatl still talked of Moctezuma and Freedom.
One century ago, from the summit of yonder mountain could have been seen, not only the settlement of San Ildefonso, but a score of others cities, and towns, and villages where to-day the eye cannot trace a vestige of civilisation. Even the names of these cities are forgotten, and their histories buried among their ruins! "The Indian has wreaked his revenge upon the murderers of Moctezuma!
In the canon de Chelley these savages had their headquarters, with the temple and estufa, where the sacred fire of Moctezuma was never permitted to go out; and there, in times past, when Mexico was misruled by the tyrant Santa Anna, might have been seen scores of white women, captives to the Navajo nation, women well born and tenderly brought up, torn from their homes on the Rio del Norte, and forced to become the wives of their red-skinned captors oftener their concubines and slaves.
They found John Slaughter and two cow-boys encamped in a hamlet down beyond Moctezuma with the nucleus of a herd which they were gathering. A sharp-eyed scout reported two pack-mules, their aparejos bulging with dobie dollars, in the train.
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