Show WOULD NOT LIVE LIVE AS SLAVES incident of sublime heroism of which the world borla has had little knowledge D W and A S iddings hi dings who have recently returned from a trip in the interests of recreation through parts of mexico little known to the outside obtained an interesting audience with the governor of chiapas in writing of this interview in recreation they say atty it was from the governors lips that we heard the story or of the awful tragedy tuat followed the rebellion rebell loo of the after the first three years of af rule almost unmatched in the worlds history and yet little known the defeated facing a return to the spanish bondage rushed in a body from the city of calapa to the edgo edge of a high cliff overhanging tha he grijalva river and locked in close clo so embrace fathers mothers and children cast themselves upon the rocks below or into the swift running stream they preferred death at their own hands in this frightful mannor manner to dishonor vainly the spaniards strove to prevent the great cites complete depopulation but of the multitude variously estimated at from to scarce 2000 souls were saved this was in 1626 |