Note 1000 — Chapter XXIX · KING-MAKING AND CONVERTING. October-December, 1520.
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‘Buenas, ò malas Indias, sacallas al almoneda ... que se venderia.’ Id. This was to be done at the next distribution in Tezcuco. The proceeding was discussed at length in Spain, and favored also by a large body of the clergy, as justifiable; but the emperor took the humane course of allowing captives to be held only as prisoners, so long as this was absolutely necessary. Solis, Hist. Mex., ii. 233.