Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican, Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time.

CHAPTER IV.--Description of the City of Tenochtitlan--Montezuma's

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way of life--Market-place--Cortéz at the Great Temple--Description of it--Place of Sacrifice--Sanctuaries--Huitzilopotchtli-- Tezcatlipoca--Danger of Cortéz--Montezuma seized--Montezuma a prisoner--his submissiveness--Arrival of Narvaez--Cortéz's diplomacy--Cortéz overcomes Narvaez, and recruits his forces, 35