. History of the conquest of Mexico : with a preliminary view of the ancient Mexican civilization, and the life of the conqueror, Hernando Cortés. he hospitable walls 18 Rel. Seg. de Cortes, ap. Lo- cap. 58. — Martyr, De Orbe Novo, renzana, pp. 62, 63-—Oviedo, dec. 5, cap. 2.—Herrera, Hist. Hist, de las Ind., MS., lib. 33, cap. General, dec. 2, lib. 6, cap. 18. — 4. — Ixtlilxochitl, Hist. Chich., Sahagun, Hist, de Nueva Espaiia, MS., cap. 84. —Gomara, Cronica, MS., lib. 12, cap. 11. 488 MARCH TO MEXICO. [Book III. of Tlascala; and nearly six, since they entered herterritory. They had been met
. History of the conquest of Mexico : with a preliminary view of the ancient Mexican civilization, and the life of the conqueror, Hernando Cortés. he hospitable walls 18 Rel. Seg. de Cortes, ap. Lo- cap. 58. — Martyr, De Orbe Novo, renzana, pp. 62, 63-—Oviedo, dec. 5, cap. 2.—Herrera, Hist. Hist, de las Ind., MS., lib. 33, cap. General, dec. 2, lib. 6, cap. 18. — 4. — Ixtlilxochitl, Hist. Chich., Sahagun, Hist, de Nueva Espaiia, MS., cap. 84. —Gomara, Cronica, MS., lib. 12, cap. 11. 488 MARCH TO MEXICO. [Book III. of Tlascala; and nearly six, since they entered herterritory. They had been met on the threshold asan enemy, with the most determined hostility. Theywere now to part with the same people, as friendsand allies ; fast friends, who were to stand by them,side by side, through the whole of their arduousstruggle. The result of their visit, therefore, wasof the last importance; since on the cooperation ofthese brave and warlike republicans, greatly depend-ed the ultimate success of the expedition. END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. V i1 p. ^^ 1 jorf RMilhiFnritrr HISTORY OF THE CONaUEST OF MEXICO, WITH A PRELIMINARY VIEW OF THE ANCIENT MEXICAN CIVILIZATION, AND THE LIFE OF THE CONQUEROR, HERNANDO H; ]^,RESCOTT, AUTHOR OP THE HISTORY OP FERDINAND AND ISABELLA. Victrices aquilaa alium lalurus in orbem. LucAN, Pharsalia, lib. v., v. 238. IN THREE I. NEW YORK:HARPER AND BROTHERS, 82, CLIFF STREET M DCCC XLVI. ^^ \ Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843, by William H. Prescott, the Clerks office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts PREFACE. As the Conquest of Mexico has occupied thepens of Solis and of Robertson, two of the ablesthistorians of their respective nations, it mightseem that little could remain at the present dayto be gleaned by the historical inquirer. ButRobertsons narrative is necessarily brief, formingonly part of a more extended work; and neitherthe British, nor the Castilian author,
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