The Infidel; or, the Fall of Mexico. Vol. II.Bird, Robert Montgomery
History
The Infidel; or, the Fall of Mexico. Vol. II.
Bird, Robert Montgomery
Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540 -- Fiction
The fate of Guatimozin is well known. The crown he was still enforced to
wear did not protect him from the torture of fire; nor could his noble
character and unhappy fall secure him from a death of degradation. Four
years after the fall of his empire, and at a distance of several hundred
leagues from his native valley, he expiated upon a gibbet, a crime that
existed only in the gloomy and remorseful imagination of the Conqueror.
And thus, with two royal kinsmen, kings and feudatories of Anahuac, he
was left to swing in the winds, and feed the vultures, of a distant and
desert land. He merited a higher distinction, a loftier respect, and a
profounder compassion, than men will willingly accord to a barbarian and
INFIDEL.
THE END.
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