One, a very good old man, was most gentle and kind to them, going before to provide everything he could for them; but their other guide, a young man, was " a very cruell cative," who carried a javelin in his hand, and when our men could scarcely crawl had a horrible trick of smiting them violently on the back of the neck and knocking them down, crying, " March, English dog, Lutheran, enemy of God." All the way to Mexico this con?tinued, the old man making them halt and rest, the young one urging them on. It was with joy, after their dreadful march, that they heard that they were within fifteen miles of Mexico, for they had little pleasure of life left, and would prefer liberty to the present state of things, even though it came through death. He describes the shrine of one lady of Guadaloupe as being life-size, of silver and gilt; and while the wonder of it was still on their mind they were Burberry outlet met by a great number of horsemen who had ridden out from Mexico to meet them and stare at them, and by whom they were escorted into the Mexico of 1568 through the gate of St. Catharine, and were thence marched on to the Placa del Marquese, close by the market-place. The Spaniards of the city loaded them with kind?ness. Provisions, five times more than they could eat, hats, and money were given to them; and after a little time they were taken along the lake in two canoes to a hospital, where were many other English; indeed that and another Burberry Sale hospital, that of Our Lady, were full of English. No sooner did they come into hospital than the men began to Burberry Sale die; and in the next fortnight there were so many g9ne, that there was plenty of room in the ladies hospital, whither Miles Philips was removed. |