An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . east of turkeysand roses ! They also gave Cortes twentyIndian girls to attend the army. To hisinquiries respecting the country whence they obtained the gold, theyreplied by repetitions of the words Culua and Mexico, andpointing to the west. Having obtained all the information the Ta-bascans could give him, Cortes resolved to proceed on his , after a solemn mass,
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . east of turkeysand roses ! They also gave Cortes twentyIndian girls to attend the army. To hisinquiries respecting the country whence they obtained the gold, theyreplied by repetitions of the words Culua and Mexico, andpointing to the west. Having obtained all the information the Ta-bascans could give him, Cortes resolved to proceed on his , after a solemn mass, which the Indians attended, thearmament left Tabasco, and, after a short sail, arrived off the coastof St. Juan de UUoa, the site of the modern Vera Cruz. It was onHoly Thursday, (April 20,) in the year 1519, that they arrived atthe port of St. Juan de Ulloa, the extreme eastern province of theMexican dominions, properly so called. The royal flag was floatingfrom the mast of Cortess ship. The Spaniards could see the beachcrowded with natives, who had come down to gaze at the strangewater-houses, of which they had formerly seen specimens. Atlength, a light pirogue filled with natives, some of them evidentl>. DONNA MAKINA. 41 men of rank, pushed off from the shore and steered for the ship ofCortes. The Indians went on board without any symptoms of fear, and,what was more striking, with an air of ease and perfect good-breed-ing. They spoke a different language from that of the inhabitantsof CozumeJ or the Tabascans—a language, too, which Aguilar did notunderstand. Fortunately, one of the twenty Indian girls presentedby the Tabascans to the Spaniards, was a Mexican by birth. Thisgirl, whose Spanish name of Donna Marina is imperishably associ-ated with the history of the Conquest of Mexico, was the daughterof a chief, but, by a singular course of events, had become a slavein Tabasco. She had already attracted attention by her beauty,sweetness, and gentleness, and she had been m
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