Navegar por los elementos (8 total)

Next day, the principal cacique of the island visited Cortes, who received him very politely. During the conversation, one of the Indians was heard to pronounce the word Castilla, the meaning of which Cortes was giving to understand was, that the…

Cacamatzin the king’s nephew, and prince of the city of Tezcuco, the largest next to Mexico in the empire, having received information that the king had been now many days kept prisoner by the Spaniards, and that they had also opened the treasury of…

The Admiral, after the Storm was over, left the Coast of Hispaniola, and sailing to the Westward, pass’d by the South-side of the Island of Jamaica, from whence continuing his Course, he arrived at the Island of Guyana, in the Gulph of Honduras,…

Guatimozino, the last emperour of Mexico, having opposed the Spaniards with great bravery, in various engagements was at length defeated and taken prisoner.

two Indian youth prisoners, who were afterwards baptised by the names of Julian and Melchor, and proved important acquisitions, as the Spaniards made use of them as interpreters and mediators between them and the Mexicans

An apartment in the Imperial Palace, which is used as a prison for Motezuma. A Seat. During a gloomy and very short symphony Motezuma in chains is seated in the utmost affliction, surrounded by the Grandees of his Court, who pity and comfort him.

He was shipwreck’d in a Caravel upon the Flats of the Alacranes, as he was passing from Darien to the Island of St. Domingo, and escaping in the Boat with twenty more on Company, was driven upon the Shore of Yucatan, where they were taken, and…

but seven had died of hunger and fatigue, the rest fell into the hands of the Cacique of the country, who immediately sacrificed five to his idols