. Stories of the conquests of Mexico and Peru, with a sketch of the early adventures of the Spaniards in the New World. Re-told for youth . formed, every man, together with the general, confessedand received the sacrament. Prayers were offered upby Father Olmedo, invoking a blessing upon the littlenavy; and as the vessels, one after the other, droppeddown the canal, and entered the great lake amidst thesound of music and the bellowing of cannon, every manfelt that the Aztec capital was a doomed city. Thescene touched the stern hearts of the conquerors, saysPrescott, with a glow of rapture, and
. Stories of the conquests of Mexico and Peru, with a sketch of the early adventures of the Spaniards in the New World. Re-told for youth . formed, every man, together with the general, confessedand received the sacrament. Prayers were offered upby Father Olmedo, invoking a blessing upon the littlenavy; and as the vessels, one after the other, droppeddown the canal, and entered the great lake amidst thesound of music and the bellowing of cannon, every manfelt that the Aztec capital was a doomed city. Thescene touched the stern hearts of the conquerors, saysPrescott, with a glow of rapture, and, as they felt thatHeaven had blessed their undertaking, they broke forth THE SIEGE OF MEXICO. 257 hj general accord into tlie noble anthem of the TeDeum. But there was not one of that vast multitudefor whom the sight had deeper interest than their com-mander; for he looked on it as the work, in a manner,of his own hands; and his bosom swelled with exulta-tion as he felt he was now possessed of a power strongenough to command the lake, and to shake the haughtytowers of Tenochtitlan. 258 CHAPTER XIII. THE SIEGE AND DOWNFALL OF MEXtCO ANDTI-IE ADJACENT CITIE SpanisJi I «i ef 31 £]ljeac^ues If you glance at the map* you will see that four ofthe causeways by which the island city of Mexico com-municated with the mainland branched off from onegreat trunk or main highway, which, beginning at * The above map, illustrative of the siege of Mexico, is reduced fromthe History of the Spanish, Conquests in America, by Arthur Helps. MEXICO INVESTED. 259 Tepejacae, a town upon the northern border of thegreat lake, passed through the middle of the city,terminating between the two towns of Iztapalapanand Cuyoacan. Trom the latter city a wide causeway,passing in an oblique direction, joined the trunk aboutmidway between the mainland and the city. Uponthe northern side another branch led from the maintrunk to Tacuba, on the eastern border of the the west there was no communic
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