. Young folks' history of Mexico. a hadbeen ten years visited by Europeans. The currents ofthat sea set up directly against the eastern coast of Yucatanand Mexico from the southernmost of these islands. Isit not probable that some article belonging to the whitestrangers should have been washed upon these shores ?One of the early historians, Hcrrera, says that the kinghad in his possession a box containing wearing apparel,and a sword of a style unknown to the natives. The appearance of the comet terrified them exceedingly;the superstitious Montezuma consulted his astrologers, butthey could give
. Young folks' history of Mexico. a hadbeen ten years visited by Europeans. The currents ofthat sea set up directly against the eastern coast of Yucatanand Mexico from the southernmost of these islands. Isit not probable that some article belonging to the whitestrangers should have been washed upon these shores ?One of the early historians, Hcrrera, says that the kinghad in his possession a box containing wearing apparel,and a sword of a style unknown to the natives. The appearance of the comet terrified them exceedingly;the superstitious Montezuma consulted his astrologers, butthey could give him no satisfactory explanation. Thenhe applied to Nezahualpilli, King of Tezcoco, who, of lateyears, had given so much attention to the study of astron-omy and astrology. Between the two monarchs a coldnesshad existed for some years, owing to the public execution,by Nezahualpilli, of one of his wives, a sister of Monte-zuma, and of a son, for whose life the Mexican king hadinterceded in vain. But in this extremity the disasters. Omens of Disaster. 129 which threatened, seeming not to be confined to one nation,but to be universal, the kings were reunited. Nezahualpilli,being invited to Mexico, and there put in possession of allthe facts, concluded that the comet predicted the futuredisasters of those kingdoms by the arrival of a new did not relish this interpretation, and theyagreed to settle it by a gaine of foot-ball between Nezahualpilli came off victorious, it seemed conclusivethat his interpretation was the correct one; but still Mon-tezuma was not satisfied. He resolved to consult a famousastrologer of his own kingdom, who was justly consideredas an oracle. Much to the chagrin of the monarch thisdiviner confirmed the prediction of the King of Tezcoco,and Montezuma, in a great rage, caused his house to bepulled to pieces and tumbled about his ears. No doubt hewould have liked to serve Nezahualpilli in the same man-ner, but he dared not; he r
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