With the greatest difficulty I broke away and escaped; and had it not been for Bathalda, who fought side by side with me, I should have been taken by two or three fleet-footed Tlascalans.
"For the present, all is lost.

The fight cannot be renewed tomorrow, and before the sun sets the enemy will have reached the borders of Tlascala, and will be safe there." "But what was it that caused so sudden a panic in your ranks ?" Roger asked.
"It was the death of Cihuaca, our leader.

The Spanish horse, headed, as I hear, by their general himself, burst through our ranks, cut their way to his litter, overthrew his bodyguard, and slew him.

His death would have mattered little, as the victory was already won.

We needed no further orders.