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In a word, we believe that the great prince you obey is descended from Quezalcoal, lord of the seven caves of the Nauatlaques, and lawful king of those seven nations that gave rise to the Mexican empire: for, from the tradition of many ages, we know…

Mont. kneels to Cort. Mont. Patron of Mexico and God of Wars, Son of the Sun, and Brother of the Stars-

Tendile who was the most acute of the tow in appearance, remarked at this time a partly gilt helmet with one of our soldiers, and observed that it resembled one which had belonged to their ancestors, and which was placed on the head of their god…

Then the Indians retired, and the senate began to discuss the demand of Cortes, which produced very obstinate debates: some proposing to comply with his request, and others insisting upon repelling him by force of arms. The chief of those who…

I am likewise informed by my ambassadors and servants, that you are courteous and religious, and your resentments are founded on reason; that you are valiant and inured to hardships, and among other virtues, display liberality, which never exists in…

As to a Right of Succession after Motezuma’s Death, though that Part was one of those assorted Acknowledgements, yet it implied a Promise, that Cortez’s King, that great Monarch of the East, as he called him, was in himself the lawful Heir, and…

Upon this Montezuma order’d Watches to be kept on all the Sea-Coasts, to give Notice when any Ships appear’d again. The Indian Priests, to encourage the Emperor, assured him that this Phaenomenon was their great Lord Queztzalcoalt come again, who had…

Moreover, the Report that was spread, that in his Reign Strangers should be Masters of the Kingdom of Mexico, alarmed him: and lest this Report should raise any Sedition among his Subjects, he caused another to be spread, That Quatzaltoalt, or the…

"You well know, Noble and Valiant Tlascallans, that in the first Ages of Antiquity, it was revealed to our Priests, and is to this Day believed amongst us as a Point of Religión, that an invincible Race of Men are to come from the Oriental Regions of…

Next day, the Spanish general demanded audience, which being immediately granted, he put on his gayest apparel, without quitting his arms, and set out for the palace with Pedro de Alvaredo, Gonzalo de Sandoval, Juan Velasquez de Leon, Diego de Ordaz,…