He sent a party of natives after him, with instructions to prevail upon him, if possible, to return.

He refused to do so.

Cortez dispatched a body of cavalry in pursuit, arrested him in Tlascala, brought him down to Tezcuco, and there hung him in the sight of his own countrymen.
The divisions of Alvarado and Olid met with no resistance in establishing themselves at Tlacopan.

They cut the reservoir that supplied the city with fresh water, the great lake being salt.

The next day the two divisions marched on to the causeway to make themselves masters, if possible, of the first bridge.
The natives pursued their former tactics, desperately defending barricades thrown across the causeway, and attacking the invaders with a crowd of missiles from canoes.