Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) Montezuma Edition THE WORKS OF WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT TWENTY-TWO VOLUMES VOL. II _The Montezuma Edition of William H. Prescott’s Works is limited to one thousand copies, of which this is_ No. 345 [Illustration: _Copyright 1904, by J.B. Lippincott Company_ _Goupil & Cº., Paris_] [Illustration: THE MEETING OF CORTÉS AND MONTEZUMA Page 254] _Montezuma Edition_ HISTORY OF THE Conquest of Mexico BY WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT EDITED BY WILFRED HAROLD MUNRO PROFESSOR OF EUROPEAN HISTORY IN BROWN UNIVERSITY AND COMPRISING THE NOTES OF THE EDITION BY JOHN FOSTER KIRK “Victrices aquilas alium laturus in orbem” LUCAN, Pharsalia, lib. v., v. 238 VOL. II PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY Copyright, 1843, by WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT Copyright, 1871, by WILLIAM G. PRESCOTT Copyright, 1873, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. Copyright, 1904, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY Electrotyped and Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U.S.A. CONTENTS OF VOL. II BOOK II DISCOVERY OF MEXICO (CONTINUED) CHAPTER VI ACCOUNT OF MONTEZUMA--STATE OF HIS EMPIRE--STRANGE PROGNOSTICS--EMBASSY AND PRESENTS--SPANISH ENCAMPMENT