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hatred on Casas in abuse and insinuation, and the latter being a high-spirited cavalier retorted in no measured terms.[1] Such insolence was beyond endurance, but as it was conveyed by a relative of Cortés, whom Paz would most likely protect, the factor was obliged to nurse his wrath for the present. Casas thought it prudent, however, to leave for his estates in Oajaca.[2]
- ↑ He even ventured to attack Salazar's party one day, and maltreat Albornoz, whose vacillating demeanor did so much to aid the former. Gomara, Hist. Mex., 248. He would hardly have dared to raise his hands against Salazar. Bernal Diaz gives some doubtful details about Casas' conduct against Salazar. Hist. Verdad., 210-11. He was not present. Estrada was confined in another house, and Albornoz in the arsenal. Memoria, in Icazbalceta, Col. Doc., i. 519.
- ↑ 'Exiled by Salazar,' says a witness in Cortés, Residencia, i. 403.
