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He assembled the Magicians and Priests to consult about this Prodigy, and the Bird stood immoveable till many of them had tried the same Experiment; but then it got away, and vanish’d in their Presence, leaving them another Pressage in its…

Old Prophecies foretell our Fall at hand, When bearded Men in floating Castles land. I fear it is dire Portent.

From Cholula hostile plain,/ Left her treacherous legions slain,/Left her temples all in flame, CORTES’ conquering army came…

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…

From the first appearance of the Europeans on the coasts of Mexico, Montezuma had experienced the utmost inquietude, chiefly on account of an ancient tradition, which prevailed in that country, intimating that toward the east lived a formidable…

A small Temple illuminated in the Imperial Palace, wherein Motezuma has consulted the Oracles.

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…

"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…

The speech of Magiscatzen was received with acclamation and applause; when the favourable intention of the senate was wholly altered by the interposition of Zicotencal their general, a young man of great ferocity and ambition, who ridiculed the…