. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. w no appealed to his council, they were divided in opinion as to the course heshould pursue. His brother, Cuitlahua, or Cuitlahuatzin, counselled an im-mediate attack, while Cacamatzin, the ruler of Texcoco, urged that the Span-iards be received with all the courtesy due to the ambassadors of a foreignruler. Already had Ixtlilxochtil, Cacamatzins brother, entered into friendlyalliance with the Spanish leader. Distracted, Montezuma, inspired by hisreligious superstitions, believed that the gods had decreed again
. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. w no appealed to his council, they were divided in opinion as to the course heshould pursue. His brother, Cuitlahua, or Cuitlahuatzin, counselled an im-mediate attack, while Cacamatzin, the ruler of Texcoco, urged that the Span-iards be received with all the courtesy due to the ambassadors of a foreignruler. Already had Ixtlilxochtil, Cacamatzins brother, entered into friendlyalliance with the Spanish leader. Distracted, Montezuma, inspired by hisreligious superstitions, believed that the gods had decreed against him. He 28 MEXICO dispatched Cacamatzin, accompanied by many of the principal caciques andan imposing retinue of attendants, to greet Cortes at Amaquemacan and bidhim welcome to the capital. Thus invited and well attended, the invaderspassed through Iztapalapan amid great throngs of astonished natives eager toget a look at the wonderful beings and their strange dress and last the proud, magnificent city was before them, the goal of their THE FOUNDING OF THE CITY OF MEXICO. FROM A PAINTING BY JOSE JARA. Over the causeways on the lakes, foot and horse marched, an unwonted hopes and fears tormented them as, step by step, they moved toward theentrance to Tenochtitlan and beheld the city in all its splendor stretched alongthe shores of Lake Texcoco! A handful of Spaniards, less than five hundred,supported only by native allies who might at any time turn against them,marching to a city whose inhabitants they had been repeatedly told weretreacherous. But the die was cast. THE CONQUEST 29 On November 8th, Montezuma proceeded to the outskirts of his capitaland personally invited Cortes and his companions into the Aztec capital. Itwas no barbarian, in outward guise at least, that greeted the Spaniard. Instead,a proud and dignified ruler attired in sumptuous princely robes, and surroundedby a pomp and ceremony as exacting as that of any of t
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