They have been loaded with gifts, but forbidden to come here.

Yet since they came, in spite of orders, we have seemed as if we feared to meet them; and I blush at the thought of the treacherous plan to destroy them, at Cholula.
"The gods had prophesied that they would find their grave there.
But the gods were wrong; and it may be that the God of the whites is more powerful than ours.

If not, how is it that they did not avenge the indignities offered to them by the whites, at Cempoalla, where their images were hurled down from their altars?
And at Cholula, where the most sacred of all the temples was attacked and captured, and the emblem of the White God set up on its summit?
"You yourself, Roger Hawkshaw, warned us against these Spaniards.
You said that they were cruel masters to the people they had conquered, and above all things cruel in the matter of religion, forcing all who came under their sway to accept their God, under pain of death; and that they would slay even you, a white man like themselves, did they know that you did not belong to their people.
Tell us what is to be done.

Why are these men in our capital?
What are their objects?
Brave and strong as they are, they cannot hope to overcome a nation, or to force all Anahuac to forsake their own gods and to accept the God of the whites." "I know not what are the designs of Cortez, the leader whom you call Malinzin.

I should say the Spaniards are here with several motives.