History of the Conquest of Mexico; vol. 2/4Prescott, William Hickling
History
History of the Conquest of Mexico; vol. 2/4
Prescott, William Hickling
Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547; Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540
[287] Bernal Diaz, Ibid., loc. cit.--Oviedo, Hist. de las Ind., MS.,
lib. 83, cap. 5.--Sahagun, Hist. de Nueva-España, MS., lib. 12, cap. 16.
[288] “Muchas y diversas Joyas de Oro, y Plata, y Plumajes, y con
fasta cinco ó seis mil Piezas de Ropa de Algodon muy ricas, y de
diversas maneras texida, y labrada.” (Rel. Seg. de Cortés, ap.
Lorenzana, p. 80.) Even this falls short of truth, according to Diaz.
“Tenia apercebido el gran Monteçuma muy ricas joyas de oro, y de
muchas hechuras, que dió á nuestro Capitan, é assí mismo á cada vno
de nuestros Capitanes dió cositas de oro, y tres cargas de mantas de
labores ricas de pluma, y entre todos los soldados tambien nos dio á
cada vno á dos cargas de mantas, con alegría, y en todo parecia gran
señor.” (Hist. de la Conquista, cap. 89.) “Sex millia vestium, aiunt
qui eas vidêre.” Martyr, De Orbe Novo, dec. 5, cap. 3.
[289] Ixtlilxochitl, Hist. Chich., MS., cap. 85.--Gomara, Crónica, cap.
66.--Herrera, Hist. general, dec. 2, lib. 7, cap. 6.--Bernal Diaz,
Hist. de la Conquista, cap. 88.--Oviedo, Hist. de las Ind., MS., lib.
33, cap. 5.
[290] “La noche siguiente jugáron la artillería por la solemnidad de
haber llegado sin daño á donde deseaban; pero los Indios como no usados
á los truenos de la artillería, mal edor de la pólvora, recibiéron
grande alteracion y miedo toda aquella noche.” Sahagun, Hist. de
Nueva-España, MS., lib. 12, cap. 17.
[291] “C’est là que la famille construisit le bel édifice dans
lequel se trouvent les archives del Estado, et qui est passé avec
tout l’héritage au duc Napolitain de Monteleone.” (Humboldt, Essai
politique, tom. ii. p. 72.) The inhabitants of modern Mexico have large
obligations to this inquisitive traveller for the care he has taken to
identify the memorable localities of their capital. It is not often
that a philosophical treatise is also a good _manuel du voyageur_.
[292] [The palace of Montezuma, according to Ramirez, “occupied the
site where the national palace now stands, including that of the
university and the adjacent houses, and extending to the Plaza del
Volador, or new market-place. This was the ordinary residence of the
last Montezuma, and the place where he was actually made prisoner.”
Notas y Esclarecimientos, p. 103.]
[293] “Et io entrai più di quattro volte in una casa del gran Signor
non per altro effetto che per vederla, et ogni volta vi camminauo tanto
che mi stancauo, et mai la fini di vedere tutta.” Rel. d’un gentil’
huomo, ap. Ramusio, tom. iii. fol. 309.
[294] Gomara, Crónica, cap. 71.--Herrera, Hist. general, dec. 2, lib.
7, cap. 9.--The authorities call it “tiger,” an animal not known in
America. I have ventured to substitute the “ocelot,” _tlalocelotl_ of
Mexico, a native animal, which, being of the same family, might easily
be confounded by the Spaniards with the tiger of the Old Continent.
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