The Boy Travellers in Mexico Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Northern and Central Mexico, Campeachey, and Yucatan, With a Description of the Republics of Central America and of the Nicaragua Canal

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THE NOCHE TRISTE TREE.--A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO.--DEPARTURE OF CORTEZ FROM CUBA.--HE LANDS IN YUCATAN.--FOUNDING THE CITY OF VERA CRUZ.--DEFEATING THE TLASCALANS.--ENTRANCE TO TENOCHTITLAN.--RECEPTION BY MONTEZUMA.--RETURN TO THE COAST.--EXPULSION OF THE SPANIARDS.--BESIEGING THE CITY WITH THE AID OF THE TLASCALANS.--CAPTURE OF THE CITY, AND DEATH OF GUATEMOZIN.-- BEGINNING OF THE RULE OF THE VICEROYS.--THE CHURCH OF GUADALUPE.--STORY OF THE MIRACULOUS APPARITION.--RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL HOLIDAY.--PILGRIMAGE TO GUADALUPE.--PENITENTES; THEIR SELF-INFLICTED TORTURES. 248