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Me thinks I hear thee cry: "Oh! Heavens! Is this Amexis, the great descendant of the Zempoalan chief that glories in being treated as the equal of a Spanish captain?" Yes, Zamor, it is the same Amexis: he forgets not his high descent; but is mindful…

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…the Cacique of Cempoalla, their master, having learnt the great actions the Spaniards had performed at Tobasco, admired their valour, and in consequence was desirous of forming an alliance with them.

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Hernandez sailed to that part of Terra Firma which is called Yucatan , and when he had reached the coast continued the same course till he arrived at Campechy Bay

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and he soon found that this young woman, being born in a province of the Mexican Empire, and after her captivity having been carried to Yucatan, spoke with equal facility the language of both countries.

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He contented himself, therefore, with substituting in the place of one idol, which he had thrown from its niche, an image of the Virgin Mary […]

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We arrived at Cadiz October 17. The Spanish fleet which was to convey us to Vera Cruz, had already been on the road a whole month, and seemed ready to sail.

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When I calculated the time it would take to reach Vera Cruz, then to travel three hundred leagues by land to San-Blas, and afterwards to cross the Vermeil Sea to California, I foresaw it was morally impossible we should get there in time for our…

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I wrote to the Marquis d’Ossun, requesting, that in case the fleet did not sail immediately, I might be permitted to embark on board the first ship, no matter which, provided we might be conveyed to Vera Cruz without loss of time, and sail as swift…

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The new Court of Justice gave to the place where they designed to form a colony, before they advanced further into the country, the name of Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz , which is in English The rich city of the true Cross.

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Well I deem / And wisely did that daring Spaniard act / At Vera-Cruz, when he his yet sound ships / Dismantling, left no spot where treacherous Fear / Might still with wild and wistful eye look back. For knowing no retreat, his desperate troops / In…

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[…]Velazquez who since the departure of Cortez had been a prey to rage, repentance and jealousy, dispatched two well-armed vessels to seize the ship and all its crew […]

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Who with your Life, your Freedom would restore, and add to that the Crown of Mexico

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

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These chiefs of different indian tribes, all bearing the general name of Totonaques, entered into a formal alliance with Cortez, renouncing the authority of Montezuma

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Enter Cortez, Vasquez, Pizarro, to the Taxallan: Cortez flays them, just falling on.

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Pis. Our Men, tho’ valiant, we should find too few. But Indians join the Indians to subdue; Taxallan shook by Montezuma’s Power, Has, to resist his Forces, call’d our own.

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Thou hast much to say for thyself. Thou gloriest in being a Tlascalan; thou art proud of the privileges of thy nation. Art thou not ashamed to boast of privileges which thy ancestors gained by treason; and treasures ill-kept, at the expense of thy…

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The territory of Tlascala was about fifty miles in circumference: the chain of mountains which crosses it is considered as a ridge of the highest in the world, and extends the whole length of South America.

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Tlascala appears to have been the only instance of a perfect Aristocracy among a people, who, on account of their uncivilised manners, must still be reckoned savages.

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A kinsman of his, however, descended from Quezalcoal, journeyed through many and various countries, and, returning, settled at last at Tlascala, where he assisted in establishing that government, which the great destroyer Cortez found flourishing…

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Vazq: Methinks we walk in Dreams of Fairy Land , Where golden Ore lies mixt with common Sand; each Downfal of a Flood of Mountains pour From their rich Bowels, rolls a Silver Shower.

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…Tezcuco, one of the most considerable cities of the empire.

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Cortez divided the whole treasure into five parts: the first he destined to the king of Spain; the second he kept for himself as General […]

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It was not then called Mexico, but Tenuchtitlan. It was spacious and well peopled, containing…, about twenty thousand ordinary houses, and a vast number of temples and palaces….

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A Nation loving Gold must rule this Place, Our Temples ruin, and or Rites deface: To them, O King, is thy lost Sceptre giv’en

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He told the Emperor, that if he would permit him to erect the cross of Jesus Christ in the midst of this idolatrous temple, he would soon see that his false gods could not support its presence.

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From thence they arrived at the mouth of a river, which the natives call Tobasco , but to which the Spaniards, in honour of their chief, gave the name of Grijalva

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It now bears the latter name, but the district it waters is called Tobasco .

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The Sun, my Father, bears my Soul on high: He lets me down a Beam, and mounted there He draws back, and pulls me through the Air: I in the Eastern Parts, and rising Sky, You in Heav’ns Downfall, and the West must lie.

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When I calculated the time it would take to reach Vera Cruz, then to travel three hundred leagues by land to San-Blas, and afterwards to cross the Vermeille sea to California, I foresaw it was morally impossible we should get there in time for our…

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Motezuma, Lisinga, Pilpatoe, Priests, Grandees of the Empire, and Guards with lighted Flambeaux; they all stand near the Altar in the utmost Consternation, looking at the human Victims that have been offered up.

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The incense is upon the Altar plac’d, The bloody Sacrifice already past. Five hundred Captives saw the rising Sun, Who lost their Light ere half his Race had run. That which remains we must celebrate; Where far from Noise, without the City Gate,…

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In battle they preserved the lives of their enemies for no other purpose than that they might perish in a manner still more cruel, by the knives of their priests.

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Human sacrifices constituted the principal part of the religious rites of the Mexicans…

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This king was the Sovereign of Mexico, of whole power and magnificence you will soon hear more

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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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This Lord just now dreamt that he was in the Regions of the Dead, where all the Mexicans, who have been the Victims of his Injustice and Cruelty, came pouring in upon him, loading him with injurious and reproachful Language, and would even have torn…

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Their chief was the great Zuezalcoal, who, after having founded this empire, quitted it in order to take possession of other countries toward the East.

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A kinsman of his, however, descended from Quezalcoal, journeyed through many and various countries, and, returning, settled at last at Tlascala, where he assisted in establishing that government, which the great destroyer Cortez found flourishing…

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Forgive me when I say that if the great Guatimozen and his still greater ancestor the ever revered Quezalcoal had been there, I think their hearts must have sunk at the sight of so much distress.

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It was a saying of the great Quezalcoal, the undoubted founder of those Eastern empires where they are nourished:— "That as rivers are sweeter at their fountain-head than where they empty themselves into the sea, so also the heart of man is better in…

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Discoursing, some time since, of kings and great men, I was surprised to find the great Montezuma, and Guatimozin, and Quezalcoal, greater than both, to be very little known here.

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Statues of fantastical Divinities. An altar still smoaking. Night. A two headed Dragon on high, which, in passing, brandishes several fiery Tongues.

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The language of their poetry was brilliant, pure, and agreeable, figurative, and embellished with frequent comparisons to the most pleasing objects in nature, such as flowers, trees, rivers, etc. It was in poetry chiefly where they made use of words…

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…the reason why the Mexicans had then more gold than silver was, because gold was more frequently found pure than silver.

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The gold and silver they possessed Nature herself purified, and they had only simply to collect it;

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In this manner he coasted till he arrived at the province of Panuco , which on this side the last of Mexico, or New Spain,

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[…]some Tlascalans, who threw the blame of the event that had occurred the preceding evening on one of their allies, a people calledOtomies,who unknown to the Tlascalans, had commenced hostilities[…]

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…in the midst of which appeared Montezuma himself, seated in an open chariot of gold.

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On his head he wore a crown of gold in the form of a bishop’s mitre, and on his legs a sort of buskin, covered with plates of the same metal, and fastened with leather thongs and gold buckles.

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