. Young folks' history of Mexico. events bymeans of paintings was an invention of the Toltecs. It is bymeans of them that their early history, as given in previouspages, has been preserved. Thousands of them were de-stroyed by the first Spanish missionaries to Mexico, asworks of the devil, but a sufficient number were hiddenfrom them, and afterwards discovered and preserved, to beof service in constructino: the aborio^inal historv. Besides thepicture-paintings, proper, they had also a system of hiero-glyphs, they could count up to any required number, and each Hieroglyphs mid Picture-Paintings
. Young folks' history of Mexico. events bymeans of paintings was an invention of the Toltecs. It is bymeans of them that their early history, as given in previouspages, has been preserved. Thousands of them were de-stroyed by the first Spanish missionaries to Mexico, asworks of the devil, but a sufficient number were hiddenfrom them, and afterwards discovered and preserved, to beof service in constructino: the aborio^inal historv. Besides thepicture-paintings, proper, they had also a system of hiero-glyphs, they could count up to any required number, and each Hieroglyphs mid Picture-Paintings. 185 numeral was represented by a different character, and eachcity giving tribute to the crown; and not only materialthings, but abstract ideas had their particular characters. Having, in these latter pages, given a description ofAztec life, customs, character, and accomplishments, weshall be prepared to pursue the history of this peoplethrough a period subsequent to the arrival of the Spanishadventurers in the Gulf of CACTI, 11. THE PERIOD OF THE CONQUEST. CHAPTER XIII. THE discovery OF MEXICO. [A. D. 1517.] Twenty-five years after the discoveryof the New World, the first European vessel that everlanded on the shores of Mexico struck keel against the coralrocks of Yucatan. Though Columbus heard of Yucatan in1502, and Pinzon and Solis sighted its coast in 1506, circum^.stances unexplained had set them sailing southward andeastward without making a landing. In 1511 Cuba, whichhad been discovered in 1492 by Columbus, was colonized,and in a few years her enterprising governor, Velasquez^aided in fitting out small expeditions for discovery in otherdirections. The first of these was that of Francisco He7-nandez de Cordova^ equipped mainly at his own expense,and consisting of one hundred and ten soldiers, in threesmall vessels. They were guided by the famous pilotAiaminos, who had sailed when a youth with the greatadmiral. After several days they descried land at thenorthe
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