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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: army was given you, against the wishes of many of us, for you won
over the council by the honey of your words, and we who urged
caution, or even an alliance with the white men, the children of
god, were overruled. You went hence, and twenty thousand men, the
flower of our people, followed you to Tenoctitlan. Where are they
now? I will tell you. Some two hundred of them have crept back
home, the rest fly to and fro through the air in the gizzards of
the zaphilotes, or crouch on the earth in the bellies of jackals.
Death has them all, and you led them to their deaths. Is it then
much that we should seek the lives of you two in payment for those
of twenty thousand of our sons, our husbands, and our fathers? But
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