them, and as the procession passed into the city the Tlascaltecs rolled forth their newly acquired Spanish vivas: > “Viva el Emperador!” “Viva Malinche!” “Castilla!” “Tlascala, Tlascala, Castilla!” The march past occupied six hours, says Cortés. Ship-yards were prepared for the vessels on the border of a creek or irrigation canal, which had been deepened and widened for nearly half a league, fortified in places with timber and masonry, and provided with dams and locks. This labor had occupied eight thousand Tezcucans fifty
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CHAPTER XXX. CONSTRUCTION OF THE FLEET. December, 1520-February, 1521.
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