'So the great lords who are gone, my forefathers, your chieftains, would have spoken in a like case.

May you never regret this choice, my brethren, Men of the Otomie.' And so it came to pass that when we left the City of Pines we took from it to Cuitlahua the emperor, a promise of an army of twenty thousand men vowed to serve him to the death in his war against the Spaniard..