There were Caciquesplaced in the Villages, or some other leading person to hear suits and public demands.
The usual custom, however, is to go barefoot, especially in their own houses and fields, but the opposite is true of some Caciques and leading men, and of women.
This cruel act induced fourteen caciques to conspire for an uprising; but their designs being betrayed, they were captured by a bold stroke and two of them executed.
The principal caciques of the island now formed an alliance and uniting their forces laid siege to Santo Tomas.
The Spaniards invited the natives to witness a military drill and when the queen, her principal caciques and a great crowd of Indians were assembled, the exercises commenced.
In several regions there were up to the time of the American occupation local caciques who were almost absolute monarchs in their district.
For I was informed of one of the caciques of the valley of Amariocapana which had buried with him a little before our arrival a chair of gold most curiously wrought, which was made either in Macureguarai adjoining or in Manoa.
When CortA(C)z arrived in front of this truncated pyramid, two priests and several caciques were in attendance, by order of Montezuma, to bear him in their arms to its summit.
Accordingly he called on the Tlascalans, Cholulans, Huexotzinques, Tezcocans, and other bands or tribes for support, and permitted the caciques to use horses and the same arms that were borne by the Spaniards.
Upon this story is founded the lordship of all the caciques of Mizteca, and upon their descent from this mighty archer their ancestor.
There were princesses, the wives and daughters of caciques and chiefs, and others with no royal blood to give them prestige--a double score.
Richly caparisoned caciques and warriors were present, some seated, and others standing about the chamber, all waiting expectantly for the king to announce the opening of the council.
This saved the lives of the Christians: many of the wounded Indians were carried away by their companions, and at last, one of the under caciquesbeing wounded, the bugle sounded a retreat.
The next day, on our return, we met seven very wild-looking Indians, of whom some were caciques that had just received from the Chilian government their yearly small stipend for having long remained faithful.
He assembled the caciques of the neighbouring tribes.
He had previously informed the Sovereigns that certain caciqueswere killing the Castilians, and their Highnesses had given orders in reply, that all those who should be found guilty should be sent to Spain.
As much as possible the Indians retired to their villages to escape the notice of the officials, hoping to find under their own caciques a measure of security and a chance to live in modest poverty.
One-seventh of the Indians were required to work for their masters, and the wretched victims of this "mitta" were sent by their caciques to the nearest Spanish town, where they could be engaged by any one who required their services.
He then sent for some of the Cholulan caciques and announced his intention of leaving their city early on the following morning.
The trembling Caciques were overwhelmed by these terrible words, and a memory of the supernatural powers credited to these mysterious strangers, who seemed able to read their most hidden thoughts, came back to them.
Once among the streets he avoided those places in which the Spaniards were being lavishly entertained by the caciques of Cholula, and threaded the more distant but populous quarters.
These were halted in the centre of the court, while the Caciques advanced, with smiling faces and complimentary words, to where the Spanish commander sat on his gray steed.
This city served as the common centre for all the chiefs or caciques of this vast kingdom, to which they resorted from all quarters, to pay their tributes to the king, and to obtain justice in case of disputes among each other.
On this account, in former times, the caciques used to lay up large magazines of maize to serve them during the long drought.
Two days after the receipt of these orders, the accused caciques were brought to trial; and many of them being found guilty by evidence, or by their own confession, were publickly executed, some being burnt and others hanged.
But all the caciques or principal people and nobles of the country, besides the language peculiar to their respective countries or districts, were obliged to understand and speak the language of Cuzco.
These curacas or caciques were the judges and protectors of their subjects in peace, and their leaders in war against the neighbouring tribes.
The caciques and other great men among the Peruvians never undertake any affair of importance without having first consulted the idols, or demons rather, by means of the priests.
Many also were pardoned; and all the districts which had belonged to the caciques who suffered on this occasion, were restored to their children or other heirs.
In all the provinces of Peru there were certain nobles or principal persons, of whom the chiefs or rulers were named curacas, similar in every respect to the caciques of the islands.
Xicocentcatl Maxicatizin, is given as the name of one chief; and only three other lords or great caciques are said to have then borne sway in the Tlascalan republic, Tlekul, Xolotzin, and Citlalpocatzin.
The caciques or curacas of the different provinces were likewise carried in litters on the shoulders of their vassals.
The caciques breed horses, and use them and mules for conveying their various commodities for sale, such as maize, wood or lime; and many of the natives gain their living by following the occupation of carriers.
He readily listened to the complaints brought by Cortes against certaincaciques who had killed some Spaniards.
Kings and caciques of the allied people came, bringing rich offerings to the Mexican monarch, who displayed the greatest magnificence in receiving his guests.
In some of these villages thecaciques or chiefs fasten bits of gold on their teeth.
Of the cacique Nutibara, and of his territory: and of other caciques subject to the city of Antioquia.
They never deprived the native caciques of their inheritance, and if any one of them was so guilty as to merit deprivation, the vacant office was given to his sons or brothers, and all men were ordered to obey them.
The Indians andcaciques who serve the Spaniards holding encomiendas,[245] live in the mountains.
The caciques are very rich, and before the Spaniards came, they went about in hammocks and litters.
The neighbouring caciques had their houses here also, and their servants obtained a great quantity of gold.
On all sides it is surrounded by great villages, ruled over by many caciques or lords, who are all friendly to each other.
The Lords or Caciques and their Captains have very large houses, and near the doors there are stout canes that grow in these parts, on the tops of which are placed many heads of their enemies.
The lords or caciques are obeyed and feared by the Indians, and their women are the prettiest and most loveable of any that I have seen in the Indies.
The Caciques and officers, by order of the Yncas, made a road fifteen feet wide through these coast valleys, with a strong wall on each side.
Of the customs of the Caciques and Indians in the neighbourhood of the town of Anzerma, of the founding of that town, and who its founder was 62 CHAP.
Of the customs of the Caciques and Indians in the neighbourhood of the town of Anzerma, of the founding of that town, and who its founder was.
Of the cacique Nutibara, and of his territory: and of other caciques subject to the city of Antioquia 46 CHAP.
The Indian caciques of the neighboring country, mindful of the great benefits he had rendered their people, presented him with a considerable quantity of plate in token of their gratitude.
Another body was sent to Guamanga, about sixty leagues from Cuzco, for the similar purpose of protecting the fugitives, and also of preventing the Indian caciques from forwarding supplies to the insurgent army in Cuzco.
The other order of nobility was the Curacas, the caciques of the conquered nations, or their descendants.
Then the Governor began asking each [cacique] in turn his name and that of the land of which he was the lord, and he ordered that it be taken down by his secretary and scrivener, and there were as many as fiftycaciques and chiefs.
Of the vassalage and obedience which Atabalipa and many other caciques offered to the Emperor.
When they had returned, the treasurer used his best efforts, as much in guarding the city and in treating well the caciques who were there with him as in informing himself stealthily of all the doings of the enemy.
So he commanded all the caciques to obey him [Manco] as their lord and to do all that he should order them to do.
The Spaniards asked for parley, and the Caciques permitted the Padres to come up into the council chambers, for they knew that the long gowns covered no weapons.
I showed the Adelantado the god-house with its dead Caciques all stuffed with pearls, and the warrior-house where the arms of Ayllon were laid up for a trophy.
The Caciques did not know it, but killing the strangers or losing them had been only a part of his plan.
Upon which the Turk told them all that the Caciqueshad said, and what he himself had done, all except about the horses, and especially about the bay mare and Running Elk.
I am that man,' said Ho-tai of the Two Hearts, and the Caciques put their hands over their mouths with astonishment.
There were many mule loads such as these in the god-house at Talimeco," she said; "we filled the caskets of our dead Caciques with them.
Everywhere Soto told the Caciques that he and his men were the Children of the Sun, seeking the highest chief and the richest province, and asked for guides and carriers, which usually he got.
When it was ripe the priests and Caciques went into the fields to select the seed for next year.
Then it was that the Turk went to the Caciques sitting in council.
The next day, which was Sunday, at Father Navalon's urgent request, the Caciques of the Abipones and Mocobios deliberated on what was best to be done.
Inconceivable is the importance attached to the examples of the Caciques by the Indians.
Fè might be extended to all Paraguay, he contrived to have the chief Caciques of the whole nation convened in the town of St. Jeronymo.
Fè, for the Caciques Aletin and Chitalin, and at that time contained about twenty families, but was wonderfully increased by the accession of those whom Barreda frightened into entering it, or freed from captivity and sent thither.
Whilst the other Caciques either did not know of this incursion, or connived at it, Ychoalay, indignant at such perfidy, thought it incumbent upon him to avenge the injury done the Spaniards, and the disgrace reflected on the Abiponian name.
Some blamed Barreda for taking, as companions of his journey, the Caciques Malakin and Debayakaikin, whom, though apparently friends to the Spaniards, they thought to be treacherous in reality.
The Caciques Naarè and Kachirikin settled here likewise, with their numerous Yaaukanigas, whilst the people of Corrientes were building them the town of St. Ferdinand.
Each of the Caciques was accompanied by a chosen troop of his own horse, figures terrible to behold.
The remaining two carried provisions and a few bales of goods, intended to secure the goodwill of the Caciques of the plain.
Just the very ones who had the foreign prisoners in their hands, the natives under the rule of the Caciques Calfoucoura, Catriel, or Yanchetruz.
Being extremely independent in their notions, their ulmens or caciques had no power to impose contributions on the people they governed, and were merely sages or warriors who guided the tribes in council or in the field.
After the parlemento a grand banquet was given by Cheoeque to all the assembled caciquesand their sons.
Afterwards the Caciquesadvanced and formally shook hands, making, each in turn, long and complimentary speeches.
At these places he holds a kind of court; all the chief caciques meeting him, and informing him of what has passed since his last visit, and receiving fresh orders for the year to come.
Amongst the Indians who had come to meet the governor here, there were some caciques of those Indians who had treated us so kindly at our first landing upon Chiloe.
At the end of three days, this man returned with an order to the chief caciques of these Indians we were amongst, to carry us directly to a certain place, where there would be a party of soldiers to receive us.
Although it hath pleased him already, and will still further please the head of the church, to give us rights, in our characters of Christian princes, over these caciques of India, there is nothing unusual or novel in the fact.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caciques" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
