Note XXVI-42 — Chapter XXVI · EXPEDITION TO SALVADOR. 1524.
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The Spaniards entertained some suspicions of treachery. Brasseur de Bourbourg states that the prince and all his suite were seized and kept prisoners. Hist. Nat. Civ., iv. 664. The testimony of Alvarado's letter tends on the contrary to prove that they escaped from the town with the rest of the population: 'I mientras nos aposentamos, no quedò Hombre de ellos en el Pueblo, que todos se fueron à las Sierras. E como vi esto, Yo embiè mis Mensageros à los Señores de alli à decirles, que no fuesen malos.' Relacion, i. 164. Compare, however, Ramirez, Proceso contra Alvarado, 9 et seq.