. Young folks' history of Mexico. tit soon contained above 3,000 houses. To-day it is a city of70,000 inhabitants. [A. D. 1532.] Cortez, on his return from Spain in 1530,had established himself with his lovely wife in the vale ofCuernavaca, where he built a palatial residence and devotedhimself to the cultivation of sugar-cane. To him is duethe first impulse towards the development of this industry,which has now assumed such vast proportions. He soon tired of this employment, however, and in 1532availed himself of the powers vested in him by the king for Death of Cortez. 341 discovery and conq
. Young folks' history of Mexico. tit soon contained above 3,000 houses. To-day it is a city of70,000 inhabitants. [A. D. 1532.] Cortez, on his return from Spain in 1530,had established himself with his lovely wife in the vale ofCuernavaca, where he built a palatial residence and devotedhimself to the cultivation of sugar-cane. To him is duethe first impulse towards the development of this industry,which has now assumed such vast proportions. He soon tired of this employment, however, and in 1532availed himself of the powers vested in him by the king for Death of Cortez. 341 discovery and conquest, and fitted out two ships to explorethe Pacific. This expedition proving a failure, he fitted outtwo more vessels, which accomplished nothing more thanthe discovery of Lower California. Still undaunted, helaunched three more ships, at Tehuantepec, in 1537, andattempted a colony in Lower California; but nearly all thecolonists perished, and he at last gave up his attempts atfresh discoveries after having expended over 300,000. iV AZTEC HUT. crowns. In 1540, a disappointed and sorrowful man, hereturned to Spain to seek restitution for his losses; but,after years of vain endeavor, he at last died, in the state ofmisery he merited, in the year 1547. We will not stop to inquire if his conscience was everoppressed by feelings of remorse for the unparalleled ca-lamities he had entailed upon the innocent Mexicans, butwill turn from him with the same sense of relief we wouldfeel at the death of a venomous serpent that had drawn itsloathsome trail over this fair earth. 342 Mexico. In 1530 the misgovernment in Mexico called for aciiange; a new Audiencia was appointed, followed by theestablishment of a viceroyalty. The viceroy, the personwho was to be invested with all the authority of the kinghimself, and who was to govern the new vice-kingdom, was tobe one whose high jDosition placed him beyond suspicion, andwhose fidelity to the crown was unquestionable. Such a manwas
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