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1492

CHAPTER XXV
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They were eating and drinking.

Caonabo entered the first house, and his coming made the signal.

Escobedo and Pedro Gutierrez were in this house.

They raised a shout, "Undone, Spaniards!" But though they were heard in the other houses--these houses being nothing more than booths--it was to no use.

There followed struggle and massacre; finally Gutierrez and Escobedo and eight men lay dead.


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