Insidious Chapter 3 In Hindi 720p Torrentl
Vilma Steiert
Writing and sent by the Co-creator of the tax exemption, Leigh Whannell, the new chapter of the saga takes place before the events happened to the family Lambert. The medium Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye) grudgingly accepts to use their ability to contact with dead with the purpose of to help an adolescent (Stefanie Scott) who has become the objective of a dangerous supernatural being.
Go back to the beginning....in this chilling prequel that takes place before the unforgettable haunting of the Lambert family. When paranormal investigators Tucker and Specs team up with the psychic Elise to help a teenage girl contact her late mother, Elise is forced to venture back into The Further where she finds a ruthless supernatural entity craving the souls of the living. It's the darkest chapter yet in this spine-tingling portrayal of evil unleashed.
THE Spaniards were allowed to repose undisturbed the followingday, and to recruit their strength after the fatigue and hard fightingon the preceding. They found sufficient employment, however, inrepairing and cleaning their weapons, replenishing their diminishedstock of arrows, and getting everything in order for furtherhostilities, should the severe lesson they had inflicted on theenemy prove insufficient to discourage him. On the second day, asCortes received no overtures from the Tlascalans, he determined tosend an embassy to their camp, proposing a cessation of hostilities,and expressing his intention to visit their capital as a friend. Heselected two of the principal chiefs taken in the late engagement asthe bearers of the message. Meanwhile, averse to leaving his men longer in a dangerous stateof inaction, which the enemy might interpret as the result of timidityor exhaustion, he put himself at the head of the cavalry and suchlight troops as were most fit for service, and made a foray into theneighbouring country. It was a montainous region, formed by a.ramification of the great sierra of Tlascala, with verdant slopesand valleys teeming with maize and plantations of maguey, while theeminences were crowned with populous towns and villages. In one ofthese, he tells us, he found three thousand dwellings. In someplaces he met with a resolute resistance, and on these occasionstook ample vengeance by laying the country waste with fire andsword. After a successful inroad he returned laden with forage andprovisions, and driving before him several hundred Indian captives. Hetreated them kindly, however, when arrived in camp, endeavouring tomake them understand that these acts of violence were not dictatedby his own wishes, but by the unfriendly policy of their countrymen.In this way he hoped to impress the nation with the conviction ofhis power on the one hand, and of his amicable intentions, if met bythem in the like spirit, on the other. On reaching his quarters, he found the two envoys returned fromthe Tlascalan camp. They had fallen in with Xicotencatl at about twoleagues' distance, where he lay encamped with a powerful force. Thecacique gave them audience at the head of his troops. He told themto return with the answer, "That the Spaniards might pass on as soonas they chose to Tlascala; and, when they reached it, their fleshwould be hewn from their bodies, for sacrifice to the gods! If theypreferred to remain in their own quarters, he would pay them a visitthere the next day." The ambassadors added, that the chief had animmense force with him, consisting of five battalions of tenthousand men each. They were the flower of the Tlascalan and Otomiewarriors, assembled under the banners of their respective leaders,by command of the senate, who were resolved to try the fortunes of thestate in a pitched battle, and strike one decisive blow for theextermination of the invaders. This bold defiance fell heavily on the ears of the Spaniards,not prepared for so pertinacious a spirit in their enemy. They had hadample proof of his courage and formidable prowess. They were now, intheir crippled condition, to encounter him with a still moreterrible array of numbers. The war, too, from the horrible fate withwhich it menaced the vanquished, wore a peculiarly gloomy aspectthat pressed heavily on their spirits. "We feared death," says thelion-hearted Diaz, with his usual simplicity, "for we were men." Therewas scarcely one in the army that did not confess himself that nightto the reverend Father Olmedo, who was occupied nearly the whole of itwith administering absolution, and with the other solemn offices ofthe Church. Armed with the blessed sacraments, the Catholic soldierlay tranquilly down to rest, prepared for any fate that might betidehim under the banner of the Cross. As a battle was now inevitable, Cortes resolved to march out andmeet the enemy in the field. This would have a show of confidence,that might serve the double purpose of intimidating the Tlascalans,and inspiriting his own men, whose enthusiasm might lose somewhat ofits heat, if compelled to await the assault of their antagonists,inactive in their own intrenchments. The sun rose bright on thefollowing morning, the 5th of September, 1519, an eventful day inthe history of Spanish Conquest. The general reviewed his army, andgave them, preparatory to marching, a few words of encouragement andadvice. The infantry he instructed to rely on the point rather thanthe edge of their swords, and to endeavour to thrust their opponentsthrough the body. The horsemen were to charge at half speed, withtheir lances aimed at the eyes of the Indians. The artillery thearquebusiers, and crossbowmen, were to support one another, someloading while others discharged their pieces, that there should bean unintermitted firing kept up through the action. Above all, theywere to maintain their ranks close and unbroken, as on this dependedtheir preservation. They had not advanced a quarter of a league, when they came insight of the Tlascalan army. Its dense array stretched far and wideover a vast plain or meadow ground, about six miles square. Itsappearance justified the report which had been given of its numbers.Nothing could be more picturesque than the aspect of these Indianbattalions, with the naked bodies of the common soldiers gaudilypainted, the fantastic helmets of the chiefs glittering with goldand precious stones, and the glowing panoplies of feather-work whichdecorated their persons. Innumerable spears and darts tipped withpoints of transparent itztli or fiery copper, sparkled bright in themorning sun, like the phosphoric gleams playing on the surface of atroubled sea, while the rear of the mighty host was dark with theshadows of banners, on which were emblazoned the armorial bearingsof the great Tlascalan and Otomie chieftains. Among these, the whiteheron on the rock, the cognisance of the house of Xicotencatl, wasconspicuous, and, still more, the golden eagle with outspread wings,in the fashion of a Roman signum, richly ornamented with emeraldsand silver work, the great standard of the republic of Tlascala. The common file wore no covering except a girdle round theloins. Their bodies were painted with the appropriate colours of thechieftain whose banner they followed. The feather-mail of the higherclass of warriors exhibited, also, a similar selection of coloursfor the like object, in the same manner as the colour of the tartanindicates the peculiar clan of the Highlander. The caciques andprincipal warriors were clothed in a quilted cotton tunic, twoinches thick, which, fitting close to the body, protected also thethighs and the shoulders. Over this the wealthier Indians worecuirasses of thin gold plate, or silver. Their legs were defended byleathern boots or sandals, trimmed with gold. But the most brilliantpart of their costume was a rich mantle of the plumaje orfeather-work, embroidered with curious art, and furnishing someresemblance to the gorgeous surcoat worn by the European knight overhis armour in the Middle Ages. This graceful and picturesque dress wassurmounted by a fantastic head-piece made of wood or leather,representing the head of some wild animal, and frequently displaying aformidable array of teeth. With this covering the warrior's head wasenveloped, producing a most grotesque and hideous effect. From thecrown floated a splendid panache of the richly variegated plumage ofthe tropics, indicating, by its form and colours, the rank andfamily of the wearer. To complete their defensive armour, they carriedshields or targets, made sometimes of wood covered with leather, butmore usually of a light frame of reeds quilted with cotton, which werepreferred, as tougher and less liable to fracture than the former.They had other bucklers, in which the cotton was covered with anelastic substance, enabling them to be shut up in a more compact form,like a fan or umbrella. These shields were decorated with showyornaments, according to the taste or wealth of the wearer, and fringedwith a beautiful pendant of feather-work. Their weapons were slings, bows and arrows, javelins, and darts.They were accomplished archers, and would discharge two or eventhree arrows at a time. But they most excelled in throwing thejavelin. One species of this, with a thong attached to it, whichremained in the slinger's hand, that he might recall the weapon, wasespecially dreaded by the Spaniards. These various weapons werepointed with bone, or the mineral itztli (obsidian), the hard vitreoussubstance already noticed, as capable of taking an edge like arazor, though easily blunted. Their spears and arrows were alsofrequently headed with copper. Instead of a sword, they bore atwo-handed staff, about three feet and a half long, in which, atregular distances, were inserted, transversely, sharp blades ofitztli,- a formidable weapon, which, an eye-witness assures us, he hadseen fell a horse at a blow. Such was the costume of the Tlascalan warrior, and, indeed, ofthat great family of nations generally, who occupied the plateau ofAnahuac. Some parts of it, as the targets and the cotton mail orescaupil, as it was called in Castilian, were so excellent, thatthey were subsequently adopted by the Spaniards, as equallyeffectual in the way of protection, and superior, on the score oflightness and convenience, to their own. They were of sufficientstrength to turn an arrow, or the stroke of a javelin, althoughimpotent as a defence against firearms. But what armour is not? Yet itis probably no exaggeration to say that, in convenience, gracefulness,and strength, the arms of the Indian warrior were not very inferior tothose of the polished nations of antiquity. As soon as the Castilians came in sight, the Tlascalans set uptheir yell of defiance, rising high above the wild barbaric minstrelsyof shell, atabal, and trumpet, with which they proclaimed theirtriumphant anticipations of victory over the paltry forces of theinvaders. When the latter had come within bowshot, the Indianshurled a tempest of missiles, that darkened the sun for a moment aswith a passing cloud, strewing the earth around with heaps of stonesand arrows. Slowly and steadily the little band of Spaniards held onits way amidst this arrowy shower, until it had reached whatappeared the proper distance for delivering its fire with full effect.Cortes then halted, and, hastily forming his troops, opened ageneral well-directed fire along the whole line. Every shot bore itserrand of death; and the ranks of the Indians were mowed down fasterthan their comrades in the rear could carry off their bodies,according to custom, from the field. The balls in their passagethrough the crowded files, bearing splinters of the broken harness andmangled limbs of the warriors, scattered havoc and desolation in theirpath. The mob of barbarians stood petrified with dismay, till, atlength, galled to desperation by their intolerable suffering, theypoured forth simultaneously their hideous war-shriek, and rushedimpetuously on the Christians. On they came like an avalanche, or mountain torrent, shaking thesolid earth, and sweeping away every obstacle in its path. Thelittle army of Spaniards opposed a bold front to the overwhelmingmass. But no strength could withstand it. They faltered, gave way,were borne along before it, and their ranks were broken and throwninto disorder. It was in vain the general called on them to closeagain and rally. His voice was drowned by the din of fight and thefierce cries of the assailants. For a moment, it seemed that all waslost. The tide of battle had turned against them, and the fate ofthe Christians was sealed. But every man had that within his bosom which spoke louder thanthe voice of the general. Despair gave unnatural energy to his arms.The naked body of the Indian afforded no resistance to the sharpToledo steel; and with their good swords, the Spanish infantry atlength succeeded in staying the human torrent. The heavy guns from adistance thundered on the flank of the assailants, which, shaken bythe iron tempest, was thrown into disorder. Their very numbersincreased the confusion, as they were precipitated on the masses infront. The horse at the same moment, charging gallantly underCortes, followed up the advantage, and at length compelled thetumultuous throng to fall back with greater precipitation and disorderthan that with which they had advanced. More than once in the course of the action, a similar assaultwas attempted by the Tlascalans, but each time with less spirit, andgreater loss. They were too deficient in military science to profit bytheir vast superiority in numbers. They were distributed intocompanies, it is true, each serving under its own chieftain andbanner. But they were not arranged by rank and file, and moved in aconfused mass, promiscuously heaped together. They knew not how toconcentrate numbers on a given point, or even how to sustain anassault, by employing successive detachments to support and relieveone another. A very small part only of their array could be broughtinto contact with an enemy inferior to them in amount of forces. Theremainder of the army, inactive and worse than useless in the rear,served only to press tumultuously on the advance, and embarrass itsmovements by mere weight of numbers, while, on the least alarm, theywere seized with a panic and threw the whole body into inextricableconfusion. It was, in short, the combat of the ancient Greeks andPersians over again. Still, the great numerical superiority of the Indians might haveenabled them, at a severe cost of their own lives, indeed, to wearout, in time, the constancy of the Spaniards, disabled by wounds,and incessant fatigue. But, fortunately for the latter, dissensionsarose among their enemies. A Tlascalan chieftain, commanding one ofthe great divisions, had taken umbrage at the haughty demeanour ofXicotencatl, who had charged him with misconduct or cowardice in thelate action. The injured cacique challenged his rival to singlecombat. This did not take place. But, burning with resentment, hechose the present occasion to indulge it, by drawing off his forces,amounting to ten thousand men, from the field. He also persuadedanother of the commanders to follow his example. Thus reduced to about half his original strength, and that greatlycrippled by the losses of the day, Xicotencatl could no longermaintain his ground against the Spaniards. After disputing the fieldwith admirable courage for four hours, he retreated and resigned it tothe enemy. The Spaniards were too much jaded, and too many weredisabled by wounds, to allow them to pursue; and Cortes, satisfiedwith the decisive victory he had gained, returned in triumph to hisposition on the hill of Tzompach. The number of killed in his own ranks had been very small,notwithstanding the severe loss inflicted on the enemy. These few hewas careful to bury where they could not be discovered, anxious toconceal not only the amount of the slain, but the fact that the whiteswere mortal. But very many of the men were wounded, and all thehorses. The trouble of the Spaniards was much enhanced by the wantof many articles important to them in their present exigency. They hadneither oil, nor salt, which, as before noticed, was not to beobtained in Tlascala. Their clothing, accommodated to a softerclimate, was ill adapted to the rude air of the mountains; and bowsand arrows, as Bernal Diaz sarcastically remarks, formed anindifferent protection against the inclemency of the weather. Still, they had much to cheer them in the events of the day; andthey might draw from them a reasonable ground for confidence intheir own resources, such as no other experience could havesupplied. Not that the results could authorise anything likecontempt for their Indian foe. Singly and with the same weapons, hemight have stood his ground against the Spaniards. But the successof the day established the superiority of science and disciplineover mere physical courage and numbers. It was fighting over again, aswe have said, the old battle of the European and the Asiatic. Butthe handful of Greeks who routed the hosts of Xerxes and Darius, itmust be remembered, had not so obvious an advantage on the score ofweapons, as was enjoyed by the Spaniards in these wars. The use offirearms gave an ascendency which cannot easily be estimated; one sogreat, that a contest between nations equally civilised, whichshould be similar in all other respects to that between theSpaniards and the Tlascalans, would probably be attended with asimilar issue. To all this must be added the effect produced by thecavalry. The nations of Anahuac had no large domesticated animals, andwere unacquainted with any beast of burden. Their imaginations werebewildered when they beheld the strange apparition of the horse andhis rider moving in unison and obedient to one impulse, as ifpossessed of a common nature; and as they saw the terrible animal,with his "neck clothed in thunder," bearing down their squadrons andtrampling them in the dust, no wonder they should have regarded himwith the mysterious terror felt for a supernatural being. A verylittle reflection on the manifold grounds of superiority, both moraland physical, possessed by the Spaniards in this contest, willsurely explain the issue, without any disparagement to the courageor capacity of their opponents. Cortes, thinking the occasion favourable, followed up theimportant blow he had struck by a new mission to the capital,bearing a message of similar import with that recently sent to thecamp. But the senate was not yet sufficiently humbled. The late defeatcaused, indeed, general consternation. Maxixcatzin, one of the fourgreat lords who presided over the republic, reiterated with greaterforce the arguments before urged by him for embracing the profferedalliance of the strangers. The armies of the state had been beaten toooften to allow any reasonable hope of successful resistance; and heenlarged on the generosity shown by the politic Conqueror to hisprisoners,- so unusual in Anahuac,- as an additional motive for analliance with men who knew how to be friends as well as foes. But in these views he was overruled by the war-party, whoseanimosity was sharpened, rather than subdued, by the latediscomfiture. Their hostile feelings were further exasperated by theyounger Xicotencatl, who burned for an opportunity to retrieve hisdisgrace, and to wipe away the stain which had fallen for the firsttime on the arms of the republic. In their perplexity they called in the assistance of the priestswhose authority was frequently invoked in the deliberations of theAmerican chiefs. The latter inquired, with some simplicity, of theseinterpreters of fate, whether the strangers were supernaturalbeings, or men of flesh and blood like themselves. The priests,after some consultation, are said to have made the strange answer,that the Spaniards, though not gods, were children of the sun; thatthey derived their strength from that luminary, and, when his beamswere withdrawn, their powers would also fail. They recommended a nightattack, therefore, as one which afforded the best chance of success.This apparently childish response may have had in it more of cunningthan credulity. It was not improbably suggested by Xicotencatlhimself, or by the caciques in his interest, to reconcile the peopleto a measure which was contrary to the military usages,- indeed, itmay be said, to the public law of Anahuac. Whether the fruit ofartifice or superstition, it prevailed; and the Tlascalan generalwas empowered, at the head of a detachment of ten thousand warriors,to try the effect of an assault by night. The affair was conducted with such secrecy that it did not reachthe ears of the Spaniards. But their general was not one who allowedhimself, sleeping or waking, to be surprised on his post.Fortunately the night appointed was illumined by the full beams ofan autumnal moon; and one of the videttes perceived by its light, at aconsiderable distance, a large body of Indians moving towards theChristian lines. He was not slow in giving the alarm to the garrison. The Spaniards slept, as has been said, with their arms by theirside; while their horses, picketed near them, stood ready saddled,with the bridle hanging at the bow. In five minutes the whole camp wasunder arms, when they beheld the dusky columns of the Indianscautiously advancing over the plain, their heads just peering abovethe tall maize with which the land was partially covered. Cortesdetermined not to abide the assault in his intrenchments, but to sallyout and pounce on the enemy when he had reached the bottom of thehill. Slowly and stealthily the Indians advanced, while the Christiancamp, hushed in profound silence, seemed to them buried in slumber.But no sooner had they reached the slope of the rising ground, thanthey were astounded by the deep battle-cry of the Spaniards,followed by the instantaneous apparition of the whole army, as theysallied forth from the works, and poured down the sides of the hill.Brandishing aloft their weapons, they seemed to the troubled fanciesof the Tlascalans like so many spectres or demons hurrying to andfro in mid air, while the uncertain light magnified their numbers, andexpanded the horse and his rider into gigantic and unearthlydimensions. Scarcely waiting the shock of their enemy, the panic-struckbarbarians let off a feeble volley of arrows, and, offering no otherresistance, fled rapidly and tumultuously across the plain. Thehorse easily overtook the fugitives, riding them down and cutting themto pieces without mercy, until Cortes, weary with slaughter, calledoff his men, leaving the field loaded with the bloody trophies ofvictory. The next day, the Spanish commander, with his usual policy after adecisive blow had been struck, sent a new embassy to the Tlascalancapital. The envoys received their instructions through theinterpreter, Marina. That remarkable woman had attracted generaladmiration by the constancy and cheerfulness with which she enduredall the privations of the camp. Far from betraying the naturalweakness and timidity of her sex, she had shrunk from no hardshipherself, and had done much to fortify the drooping spirits of thesoldiers; while her sympathies, whenever occasion offered, had beenactively exerted in mitigating the calamities of her Indiancountrymen. Through his faithful interpreter, Cortes communicated the terms ofhis message to the Tlascalan envoys. He made the same professions ofamity as before, promising oblivion of all past injuries; but, if thisproffer were rejected, he would visit their capital as a conqueror,raze every house in it to the ground, and put every inhabitant tothe sword! He then dismissed the ambassadors with the symbolicalpresents of a letter in one hand, and an arrow in the other. The envoys obtained respectful audience from the council ofTlascala, whom they found plunged in deep dejection by their recentreverses. The failure of the night attack had extinguished every sparkof hope in their bosoms. Their armies had been beaten again and again,in the open field and in secret ambush. Stratagem and courage, alltheir resources, had alike proved ineffectual against a foe whose handwas never weary, and whose eye was never closed. Nothing remainedbut to submit. They selected four principal caciques, whom theyintrusted with a mission to the Christian camp. They were to assurethe strangers of a free passage through the country, and a friendlyreception in the capital. The proffered friendship of the Spaniardswas cordially embraced, with many awkward excuses for the past. Theenvoys were to touch at the Tlascalan camp on their way, and informXicotencatl of their proceedings. They were to require him, at thesame time, to abstain from all further hostilities, and to furnish thewhite men with an ample supply of provisions. But the Tlascalan deputies, on arriving at the quarters of thatchief, did not find him in the humour to comply with theseinstructions. His repeated collisions with the Spaniards, or, it maybe, his constitutional courage, left him inaccessible to the vulgarterrors of his countrymen. He regarded the strangers not assupernatural beings, but as men like himself. The animosity of awarrior had rankled into a deadly hatred from the mortifications hehad endured at their hands, and his head teemed with plans forrecovering his fallen honours, and for taking vengeance on theinvaders of his country. He refused to disband any of the force, stillformidable, under his command; or to send supplies to the enemy'scamp. He further induced the ambassadors to remain in his quarters,and relinquish their visit to the Spaniards. The latter, inconsequence, were kept in ignorance of the movements in their favourwhich had taken place in the Tlascalan capital. The conduct of Xicotencatl is condemned by Castilian writers asthat of a ferocious and sanguinary barbarian. It is natural theyshould so regard it. But those who have no national prejudice towarp their judgments may come to a different conclusion. They may findmuch to admire in that high, unconquerable spirit, like some proudcolumn, standing alone in its majesty amidst the fragments and ruinsaround it. They may see evidences of a clearsighted sagacity, which,piercing the thin veil of insidious friendship proffered by theSpaniards, and penetrating the future, discerned the coming miseriesof his country; the noble patriotism of one who would rescue thatcountry at any cost, and, amidst the gathering darkness, wouldinfuse his own intrepid spirit into the hearts of his nation, toanimate them to a last struggle for independence.
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