We will give our word to be silent." The other prisoners also promised, and were allowed to take their places in the column, ungagged.
The alarm was given long before the rear of the column had got out from the street.

Cacama gave an exclamation of joy, when he heard the silence broken by loud cries at the end of the street; and immediately afterwards by the shouts of the priests on the lofty temples, by the blowing of horns, and the beating of the great war drum.
"The game has begun," he said.

"We shall see how many Spaniards remain alive, when the sun rises.

Long before they can get across the causeway, our people will be upon them.

We shall not see the triumph, for without defensive armor we shall fall, in the darkness, beneath the missiles of our own people.