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By Right of Conquest

CHAPTER 19: The Passage Of The Causeway
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So I made to that point and, just as I was springing ashore, heard your shout; and saw you roll down, you and another.

I guessed it might be Cacama, for I knew that you would do your best to save him; and so sprang back again to the water's edge, and found that it was so.
"And found, alas! that Cacama was mortally wounded.

How about the other prisoners ?" "I think that all had fallen, before he did.

You see, they had no protection; and even we who had armor were suffering, terribly, from the missiles poured in among us.

I know that two ladies, Montezuma's daughters, were among the first to fall.


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