Category: History - Ancient
The writer has undertaken the present study of Mexican Turquois Mosaics in honor of the approaching opening to the public of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, the only institution devoted exclusively to the study of the aboriginal American peoples ever establ...
The writer has undertaken the present study of Mexican Turquois Mosaics in honor of the approaching opening to the public of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation,...
2. CHAPTER II. _Of the first (Spanish) ships which arrived at this landThe first time that ships appeared on the coast of New Spain, the captains of Montezuma, who were called calpixques, who were near the coast, at once went to see what it was tha...
3. CHAPTER III. _Of what Montezuma disposed after he heard the news fromAs soon as he (Montezuma) heard the news from those who had come from the seashore, he ordered to be called at once the highest chief of those who were called Cuextecatl, and th...
4. CHAPTER IV. _What Montezuma ordered when he learned the second timeTo the above mentioned (messengers) Montezuma spoke, and said, “Look, it has been said that our Lord Quetzalcoatl has arrived; go and receive him and listen to what he may say t...
5. CHAPTER V. _Of what happened when the messengers of Montezuma enteredThey commenced to climb up to the ship on the ladders, and brought the presents that Montezuma had commanded them to carry. When they were in front of the captain D. Hernando Co...
6. CHAPTER VI. _Of how the messengers of Montezuma returned to MexicoAfter what has been related was done, they took leave of the captain, and entered their canoes, and commenced to go toward the land, paddling with great speed, and saying to one...