Bright days in sunny lands . destitute ofpeople. It has a wide veranda, which is but a step upfrom the sidewalk, and in it is the room whence issuedthe bulletins of Cortez that directed the army andthe preachers what to do in the building of a newSpanish dependence. Immediately after he took quar-ters there, he gave a banquet, and the wine then pouredout was said to be, in amount and in effect, scanda-lous. The chaplain of Cortez, being much offended,preached next Sunday a sermon against such riotousdoings, and commanded all the officers to do penance 1Plere Cortez dwelt with his faithful La M
Bright days in sunny lands . destitute ofpeople. It has a wide veranda, which is but a step upfrom the sidewalk, and in it is the room whence issuedthe bulletins of Cortez that directed the army andthe preachers what to do in the building of a newSpanish dependence. Immediately after he took quar-ters there, he gave a banquet, and the wine then pouredout was said to be, in amount and in effect, scanda-lous. The chaplain of Cortez, being much offended,preached next Sunday a sermon against such riotousdoings, and commanded all the officers to do penance 1Plere Cortez dwelt with his faithful La Marina, inwhose life, as connected with the movements of thetroops from the sea to the capital, there is wrappedup a whole bundle of romance, pluck and the main doorway are still to be seen the gravenarms of the Conqueror, and if the well in the gardenof another house near by, in which according to popu-lar tradition Cortez drowned his former wife, is notreally connected with any such fact, still it is a well of. SURROUNDINGS OF TENOCHTITLAN 389 that period and calls for the usual sympathetic excla-mations from tourists. Perhaps she was, and perhapsshe was not, buried under the immense, cross-crownedmound in the churchyard, but I can beheve that talemore readily than the other. And now, near this cross, we are in sight of oneof the old, old churches marking the Cortez period,and a goodly sight it is. How serene and peaceful thesurroundings! Built first in 1530 and again in an en-larged state in 1583, it is, within and without, one ofthe best relics of that time that I came across in Mex-ico. It stands there beside the green like a great shipstranded. Only now and then through the week daysdoes anybody enter or leave by its antiquated porch-door. Within it is immensely massive, yet severelyplain, and would hold a congregation of many thou-sands. I saw a priest preaching a sermon to a dozenor so people, but all else was empty space, and it wasdark and gloomy from sto
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