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The Administration was generally good, so that their Politicks were much better than their Religión

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The same Author thinks, that the Mexicans outdid all others on that Side of the Globe in the Pomp and Variety of their Dances

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Just at this time, Andres de Duero, secretary to the governor, and Amador de Lares, the Contador of his Majesty in Cuba, made a private proposal to a respectable Hidalgo named Hernando Cortes, a native of Medellin in Extremadura, and son of Martin…

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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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The realm!-To Guatimozino decreed!/Whom for his valour tried and virtue known/His country’s voice invited to the throne.

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

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His Succesor Guatimozin, who was elected by the Voice of the People, according to their Customs, made War upon the Spaniards, and obliged them to quit the City of Mexico.

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The realm!-To Guatimozino decreed!/Whom for his valour tried and virtue known/His country’s voice invited to the throne.

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The second command was also condemn’d to the same torture, and amidst his sufferings called upon his royal master to be released from the vow of secrecy, which drew from Guatimozino these memorable words: Am I on a Bed of Roses?

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As to the Virtudes of the ancient Mexicans, they do not seem to have been defective either in Point of Temperance, Fortitude, or military Skill: Both their Policy and Stratagems were admirable, considering the Disadvantages under which they labour’d;

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Women also spin, and weave their Cotton Linen. They do all the Household Business; and, what is still harder upon them, they carry Baggage upon a March, and serve their Husbands instead of Potters and Packhorses; and that with all imaginable…

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Women also spin, and weave their Cotton Linen. They do all the Household Business; and, what is still harder upon them, they carry Baggage upon a March, and serve their Husbands instead of Potters and Packhorses; and that with all imaginable…

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Dampier, in his Second Volume, Part II. P.115, says, of the Indians, they are inoffensive People, kind to Strangers, and even to the Spaniards, who use them worse than Slaves, when they get them into their power; those of the open Country spending…

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I come, in the next place, to enquire into the Character of the Indians in the open Country, that do not live in Towns, and have still preserved their Liberties, of which they are yet great Numbers; and many more that only obey them occasionally,…

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and, tho’ I don’t suppose they excelled, or even equalled the Europeans in Building, Craving, or Painting; yet it shws a vast genius and uncommon Application, that they were able, in such Circumstances, and with no better Instruments, to perform any…

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Their minds are at bottom in every respect like those of the other children of Adam, and endued with the same powers; nor did the Europeans ever do less credit to their own reason than when they doubted the rationality of the Americans.

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The language of the Indians is most elegant and copious

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Gage says, their Language is copious and elegant.

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One never perceives in a Mexican that stinking breath which is occasioned in other people by the corruption of the humors or indigestion.

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As to the Virtudes of the ancient Mexicans, they do not seem to have been defective either in Point of Temperance, Fortitude, or military Skill: Both their Policy and Stratagems were admirable, considering the Disadvantages under which they labour’d;

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Audacious Mexican behold how vain/ To war against th’ uplifted arm of Spain!…

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From when the Mexicans with speedy art/ Show’r on the foe the death-inflicting dart:/ Yet then by Cortez led, still undismayed,/ The spaniard host the lofty sane invade.

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It is a by-word that at Mexico there are four things fair, that is to say, the women, the apparel, the horses, and the streets.

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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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The Mexican women were highly commended, not only because they abode with their husbands and fathers, but also for the great pains they took with the sick and wounded persons; yea and also they laboured in making slings cutting stones fit for the…

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Women also spin, and weave their Cotton Linen. They do all the Household Business; and, what is still harder upon them, they carry Baggage upon a March, and serve their Husbands instead of Potters and Packhorses; and that with all imaginable…

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with which they had likewise good Vocal Musick, that kept exact time with the Instruments.

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As to the Virtudes of the ancient Mexicans, they do not seem to have been defective either in Point of Temperance, Fortitude, or military Skill: Both their Policy and Stratagems were admirable, considering the Disadvantages under which they labour’d;

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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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Tlaxcallan being worth all the rest of the Towns and Villages between St. John de Ulua and Mexico, I thought it not fit to parallel it with the others, in naming it briefly, and passing by it as a Traveller; but rather I judged it convenient and…

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As to the Virtudes of the ancient Mexicans, they do not seem to have been defective either in Point of Temperance, Fortitude, or military Skill: Both their Policy and Stratagems were admirable, considering the Disadvantages under which they labour’d;

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‘Xicotencatl would not even listen to this message; and Cortez having sent the guard to bring him by force, he defended himself till covered with wounds he fell dead to the earth. Such was the tragical end of a man, who, differently situated, would…

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Xicotencatl, a young chief of an ardent and courageous spirit

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The most considerable of this august body was Xicotencatl, the father of the young chief who bore his name, a venerable old man, who, though become blind with age, still retained his understanding in full vigour.

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