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When we approached Iztapalapa, we were received by several great lords of that country, relations of Montezuma, who conducted us to our lodgings there, in palaces magnificently built of stone, and the timber which was cedar, with spacious courts, and…

See now at Guatimozino ’s command,/ To tuneful measures move the warlike band!

Nor are they Foes my Clemency defends, Until they hace refus’d the Name of Friends: Draw up our Spaniards by themselves, then fire Our Guns on all who do not straight retire.

Conspicuous in the front of danger stood the brave Alonzo. Terrible as a flame of fire, and steady as a rock in the ocean. Thou wouldst have thought it had been Visiliputsli, the great god of battles, dispensing death.

The Indians began the engagement by a shower of arrows and stones which extremely annoyed the Spaniards…

Wet as they were, they arranged themselves in order of battle, and marched towards Cempoalla in profound silence, each armed with a sword, a poniard, and a long Indian pike.

*The Mexican Historian takes notice of the Sacred Trumpet . It was not permitted to any but he priests to found it; and that only when they animated the people on the part of their Gods.

And when, in the account of the battle, fought between the Spaniards and Mexicans, in the valley of Otumba, he revives the memory of the illustrious woman in the following words. In this battle, Maria de Estrada, shewed herself equal to the…

See to the same Hispania’s troops repair,/ Whose high ascending tow’rs are lost in air:/ From whence the Mexicans with speedy art/ Show’r on the foe the death-inflicting dart:/ Yet then by Cortez led, still undismay’d,/ The Spaniard host the lofty…

Our Foes with Lightning and with Thunder fight, My men in vain shun Death by shameful Flight; For Deaths invisible come wing’d with Fire, They hear a dreadful Noise, and straight expire.

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