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After a fortnight's stay at Tonalá, about the beginning of April, the army resumed its march,^[1] passing almost wholly through deserted farms and villages. Near Contla a body of natives ventured to attack the vanguard under the maestro de campo, in retaliation for which a hill village was suprised while the inhabitants were engaged in religious exercises.^[2] On approaching

Nueva Galicia

Nochistlan, Guzman learned that numbers were prepared for resistance. Messengers were sent to demand peaceful submission, only to be driven

1. According to Mota Padilla, Conq. N. Gal, 53, and Beaumont, Crón. Mich., iii. 391-2, a garrison was left at Tonalá under Captain Vasquez de Buendía. Guzman appropriated Tonalá to himself, but later the crown took it from him and made it a corregimiento. Lettre, in Ternaux-Compans, Voy., série ii. tom. v. 177.
2. Á Tolilitla. . . hallélos en una borrachera, por donde creo que no nos salieron de guerra.' Guzman, Carta, in Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., xiii. 375. The places touched since Tonalá were Chapetala, Ximoamtla, Ixcatlan, Hacotla, Contla, Tolilitla.