It is from the perspective of a Mexican cacique on his deathbed.
He sat in the midst of a circle of lamplighters, and was the cacique, or chief of the tribe.
He was the cacique of the Sun and he was vexed because he had not been called earlier.
Then they would crowd around the cacique of the Sun to argue the matter.
She put on her Shaman's dress and about the middle of the day the cacique of the Sun sent for them.
The cacique looked at the carriers on their backs and frowned.
Ayllon struck down the cacique with his own sword as the nearest at hand.
Just at midnight the cacique put his martial bands in motion.
But he could not learn that the cacique had ever heard of such a body of water.
It was that cacique to whom those Nepoios went, which came with us from the town of Toparimaca.