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The mask of Moctezuma’s armour, (the last king of Mexico,) preserved at Brussels, and on which there are very long whiskers, seems to confirm the observations of captains Cook and Carver: it is evident that the Americans would not have imitated this…

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However imperfect they were in music, their dances in which they exercised themselves from childhood, under the direction of the priests, were most graceful. They were of various kinds, and were differently named, according to the nature of the dance…

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Amicable salutes having passed on both sides, the Cacique drew from a basket which had been brought different sorts of superb armour of gold, ornamented with precious feathers, and told Grijalva, that as proof he loved peace, he requested his…

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The Feather Manufacture also was very great: They stripp’d and plunder’d every feather’d Animal, to make their Pictures, and adorn their Houses or their Persons.

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The Cathedral, like most others, is built in form of a Cross, lofty and spacious; the Painting, Gilding and Carving exquisite; and it contains abundance of Altars and Chapels on each side, the High Altar standing in the middle of the Choir.

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Churches and convents are magnificent and richly adorned; and on high festivals, the display of gold and silver, and precious stones, is such as exceed the conception of an European.

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The crown which was called by the Mexicans copilli, was a sort of small mitre, the fore-part of which was raised up, and terminated in a point, and the part behind was lowered down, and hung over the neck in the same manner as is represented in the…

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In Mexico and Peru, red was held in the highest estimation. The most magnificent present which the emperor Montezeuma could devise for Cortez was a necklace of lobsters, which, of course, had that rich colour.

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the Mexicans carried strings of Gold and roses of Diamonds in their Hats

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Act I.Scene I.A small Temple illuminated in the Imperial Palace, wherein Motezuma has consulted the Oracles. Statues of fantastical Divinieties. An Altar still Smoaking. Night. A two headed Dragon on high, which, in passing, brandishes several fiery…

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[…] which is nothing in comparison to a Church built on the Foot of that Mountain, very magnificent, adorned with Lamps, Images, and Candlesticks of Gold and Silver; besides vast Quantities of Pearls, Emeralds, and other precious Stones. This Church…

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and without any manner of Iron Tool, hew’d out vast Pillars and Slabs of Marble out of the Rock, and polish’d them, as they did several precious Stones and Jewels.

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With the same ease the Indians take the Ibitobaca, which is another Serpent of an Eil long, and of a Crimson colour, full of black and white Specks, and wear their Bones as a Necklace.

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[…] the revenues of the church in America are immense. The worship of Rome appears with its utmost pomp in the New World. –Churches and convents there are magnificent and richly adorned […]

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Churches and convents are magnificent and richly adorned; and on high festivals, the display of gold and silver, and precious stones, is such as exceed the conception of an European.

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and without any manner of Iron Tool, hew’d out vast Pillars and Slabs of Marble out of the Rock, and polish’d them, as they did several precious Stones and Jewels.

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The most magnificent present which the emperor Montezeuma could devise for Cortez was a necklace of lobsters, which, of course, had that rich colour.

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The Mexicans were, in many instances, far advanced in the arts when their empire was overthrown by Cortez. Several of their public buildings were executed with taste and magnificence, the ornaments of their temples were splendid, and their gold…

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In Mexico and Peru, red was held in the highest estimation. The most magnificent present which the emperor Montezeuma could devise for Cortez was a necklace of lobsters, which, of course, had that rich colour.

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The mask of Moctezuma’s armour, (the last king of Mexico,) preserved at Brussels, and on which there are very long whiskers, seems to confirm the observations of captains Cook and Carver: it is evident that the Americans would not have imitated this…

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Our Author afterwards view’d the Pyramid of the Sun, call’d Tonagli, which stood two hundred Paces South of the former; and he found two Sides of it three hundred Spanish Yards in Length; and the other two about two hundred; and it was a Fourth Part…

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Churches and convents are magnificent and richly adorned; and on high festivals, the display of gold and silver, and precious stones, is such as exceed the conception of an European.

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the Mexicans carried strings of Gold

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After the first Compliments, he order’d his Servants to come up with another Present (which he had brought) of divers Curiosities, of more Workmanship than Value: Plumes of Various Colours; Robes of fine Cotton, with some Figures of Animals to adorn…

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Motezuma advanced the Cavalry to its highest glory, when he instituted certain Military Orders in favour of some who resemble our Commanders, and gave them Ensigns and Marks of Honour. The most honourable was that which some Knights wore of a Crown…

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Churches and convents are magnificent and richly adorned; and on high festivals, the display of gold and silver, and precious stones, is such as exceed the conception of an European.

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Churches and convents are magnificent and richly adorned; and on high festivals, the display of gold and silver, and precious stones, is such as exceed the conception of an European.

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These Ponds had Sluices to empty and fill them at Pleasure, and had Multitudes of Fowls of various sorts, with beautiful Feathers, unknown in Europe. There were above 300 Servants in the House to look after the Ponds and the Fowls, and to take care…

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The Feather Manufacture also was very great: They stripp’d and plunder’d every feather’d Animal, to make their Pictures, and adorn their Houses or their Persons.

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There’s a Bird call’d Toto Questall, smaller than a Pigeon, with green Feathers. The Indians catch it for its long Tail, but when they have pulled it out, let the Bird fly again, it being a capital Crime to kill one of them, by their Law.

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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 figures of serpents, of tigers, and of other destructive animals decorated their temples.

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The figures of serpents, of tigers, and of other destructive animals decorated their temples.

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The figures of serpents, of tigers, and of other destructive animals decorated their temples.

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