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I took my leave of all my friends the following days, and Sunday 17th being Shrove-Sunday, the Blacks, Mulattos, and Mesticos of Acapulco, after dinner ran races with above an hundred horses; which they perform'd so well, that I thought they far…

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I proceed, in the next place, to enquire into the Religión of the Mexican Tribes, who succeeded the Chichimeca’s; and these, according to Acosta, de Solis, and other Spanish Writers of Figure, acknowledg’d one supreme God as well as Peruvians, and…

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Also the consecration of this Idol, a certain vessel of water was blessed with many words and ceremonies (peradventure from this heathenish Ceremony came the superstitious holy water of Rome)

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If we look into that Part of the World, which, for so many Ages, lay undiscovered, in China, Peru, and Mexico, as well as in Brasil, Canada, Virginia, &c. the People, though severed from the rest of the World by the vast Ocean, and having no…

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“The Mexicans believed in the immortality of the soul, and that it was rewarded or punished in a future state”

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The people of Tlascala believed that the souls of the persons of rank went, after their death, to inhabit the bodies of beautiful and sweet singing birds, and those of nobler quadrupeds; while the souls of inferior persons were supposed to pass into…

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The superstition of those people not contended with such great number of temples in their cities, villages, and hamlets, erected many altars upon the tops of hill, in the woods, and in the streets, not only for the purpose of encouraging the…

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And Gemelli Careri relates, that when he was at Mexico, in the Year 1698, being carried to the Village of Teotiguacan, which signifies a Place of Gods, about a Day’s Journey from that City, to see some Indian Antiquities; he found two Pyramids of…

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Suggests, that the Canaanites, in coasting along from Tangier, might soon get into the trade winds and be undesignedly wafted across the Atlantick land in the tropical regions, and commence the settlements of Mexico and Peru.

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From some recent publications on this subject, and particularly from the authentic letters of Cortez published by Flavigny it appears, that the disgusting narratives of cruelties exercised against Montezuma, Atapaliba, Guatimosin, &c. are forged…

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After waiting for some time very impatiently, the Mexican ambassador Tendile returned, with a present of ten loads of the finest mantles of cotton and feathers. Montezuma also sent four jewels called calchihuis, resembling emeralds, most highly…

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it is probable they were not enamour’d with the outside at the first approach, for they saw near it, a kind of Stage, of Lime and Stone, with Steps to go up, and a dead Man’s Skull, shewing the Teeth, between every Stone of the Wall. At the two ends…

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That within the Pyramid were several Vaults, where the Kings had been buried; for which reason the Road it was called Micaotli, or the Highway of the Dead; and about it were several little Mounts, or Tumuli, supposed to be the Burying-places of their…

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If we might believe some Authors, indeed, they did not only sacrifice Men, but eat them; and had Samples of human Flesh in their Markets.

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And the bodies of these sacrifices, thus murdered in a long and dismal succession were tumbled down from an elevated place of slaughter, and were eaten in a festival, by those who had taken them prisioners.

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If we might believe some Authors, indeed, they did not only sacrifice Men, but eat them; and had Samples of human Flesh in their Markets.

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I took my leave of all my friends the following days, and Sunday 17th being Shrove-Sunday, the Blacks, Mulattos, and Mesticos of Acapulco, after dinner ran races with above an hundred horses; which they perform'd so well, that I thought they far…

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These People in appearance conform themselves to the Roman Catholick Religión, which is generally profess’d in this country. But as the centure of Thomas Gage, a Dominican is too true, vis. That most of the Spanish Priests are abominable Hypocrites…

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this great Kingdom [Mexico] is as Catholick as Spain itself.

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Centeotl, goddess of the earth and of corn, called likewise, Tonacajohua, that is, the she who support us. [...]she was particularly revered and honoured by the Totonacas, who esteemed her to be their chief protectress and erected to her, upon the…

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If the Mexicans had any God which they imagined presided over the rest, it was the Sun. It is evident. They had a great Veneration for this Planet, from the Speeches of Montezuma, and their ascribing whatever was great and wonderful to this Direction…

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I proceed, in the next place, to enquire into the Religión of the Mexican Tribes, who succeeded the Chichimeca’s; and these, according to Acosta, de Solis, and other Spanish Writers of Figure, acknowledg’d one supreme God as well as Peruvians, and…

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The People that inhabited this Country immediately before the Mexicans, according to tradition, were the Chichimeca’s, who are represented by the Mexicans, that dispossess’d them of their Country, as very brutish Generation, without Clothing,…

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This idol was worshipped in a different manner at Cholula, where his devotees thought they pleased him, by fasting and drawing blood from their tongues and ears; and sacrificed to him five boys and five girls, before they engaged in any martial…

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They divided their Year into 18 Months, of 20 Days each, which made up 360; and for the other five Days, they computed them by themselves, and call’d them the Days of Nothing, for these they spent altogether in Visits, without doing Business, or…

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De Solis, in his history of the conquest of Mexico, tells us, that the Indians sacrificed in that city every year, twenty thousand lives to their accursed idol.

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This resin is well known in Europe by the name of gum Copal, and also the use which is made of it in medicine and varnishes. The ancient Mexicans used it chiefly in burnt offerings which they made for the worship of their idols; or to pay respect to…

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Thus the Chief, And what he said seem'd good. The men of Orleans,Long by their foemen bayed, a victim band, To war, to woe, and want, such transport feltAs when the Mexicans, with eager eyeGazing to Huixachtla's distant top,On that last night,…

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The first Compliments being over, in which the Mexicans exceeded, and Cortez endeavour’d to temper his Gravity with Courtesy, he carried them with him to the great Barrack, which served for a Chapel, it being the Hour for divine Service, ordering…

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But the Spanish Bishop of Chiapa, who resided in Mexico at the Time of the Conquest, and was sent over thither to enquire into these Matters, and to protect the Indians against the barbarous Usage they met with from Cortez  and his…

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From some recent publications on this subject, and particularly from the authentic letters of Cortez published by Flavigny it appears, that the disgusting narratives of cruelties exercised against Montezuma, Atapaliba, Guatimosin, &c. are forged…

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for that we are told, that when Hernan Cortez first went to the Island of Cozumel, which was in February, 1519 as shall be related in it’s Place, there was an Idol there of the same Name, which was had in great Veneration, not only by the Islanders…

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for that we are told, that when Hernan Cortez first went to the Island of Cozumel, which was in February, 1519 as shall be related in it’s Place, there was an Idol there of the same Name, which was had in great Veneration, not only by the Islanders…

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Perhaps in most Christian countries it is generally so, and I am sorry that this mildness of modern manners in war is not universal. I think of Mexico and Peru, where, by professed Christians, many millions of harmless people were sacagely butchered…

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[…]and to his last moment testified the utmost contempt for the exhortations of the Spaniards to embrace the Christian Religion.

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From some recent publications on this subject, and particularly from the authentic letters of Cortez published by Flavigny it appears, that the disgusting narratives of cruelties exercised against Montezuma, Atapaliba, Guatimosin, &c. are forged…

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A late Historian of Mexico (t), and others (u) contend on very good grounds, that bishop las Casas has misinterpreted facts, and highly exaggerated some cruelties committed by the Spaniards, in his different reports to the emperor Charles V.

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For they of China and Japan, and even the inhabitants of Mexico and Peru, do almost all agree in this, that some Deity there is, that must be invok’d and worship’d: And this Principle, is so very natural, and essential to Man, that it was universally…

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They sacrifice to devils, and (as an author who dwelt in the place, tells us) have several oratories, or dark ---, full of idols, great and small, which they bathe and wash with blood, even the blood of men

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But more Northwest-ward three leagues from Mexico is the pleasantest place of all that are about Mexico, called La Soledad , and by others el desierto , the solitary or desert place and wilderness. Were all wildernesses like it, to live in a…

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penitence and reformation, virtue, and piety of heart, and life, are little thought of among wild heathens as the means of obtaining divine pardon, or as necessary for that end.

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One of the chief Priests went in the Night to perform Penance. He carried Fire and a Bag full of Perfume to sacrifice to the Devil

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I proceed, in the next place, to enquire into the Religión of the Mexican Tribes, who succeeded the Chichimeca’s; and these, according to Acosta, de Solis, and other Spanish Writers of Figure, acknowledg’d one supreme God as well as Peruvians, and…

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Any one may see that this Fable is founded on the History of Noah’s Flood; but whether it be a modern Fiction of the Popish Priests in that Country, or a confus’d Tradition that the Natives had of the Descent of Mankind from Noah, is left to the…

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How then could the Idol Vitziliputzli be adored as the One supreme Gods Besides, the same Writers acknowledge, that there was not one Indian Nation that had a Word in their Language, or any Term, that signified G O D.

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Though they undoubtedly have a notion of one supreme God, the maker and –server of the universe; yet all their visible worship centers on idols, of which they have multitudes, some of gold and low metals, and some of wood and stone

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If the Mexicans had any God which they imagined presided over the rest, it was the Sun. It is evident. They had a great Veneration for this Planet, from the Speeches of Montezuma, and their ascribing whatever was great and wonderful to this Direction…

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These Adventurers, says the good Bishop, invented such stories to justify their own Barbarity. It may truly be said, that the Spaniards, since their Arrival in the Indies, have annually sacrificed to their Goddess Avarice, more People than the…

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All Writers agree, that their Priests offr'd Incense four times a Day to their Gods; but those that speak of sacrificing Men to their Idols, mention it as done upon extraordinary Occasions only, and no part of their constant Worship.

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That instead of the Mexicans sacrificing Thousands and twenty thousands annually, as those Adventurers reported, they never sacrificed fifty in any one Year. And, for ought I can learn, they neither sacrificed Beasts or Men constantly; but only on…

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