History of the Conquest of Mexico: With a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortés, Volym 2Baudry's European library, 1844 |
Innehåll
139 | |
154 | |
157 | |
171 | |
193 | |
194 | |
200 | |
206 | |
30 | |
35 | |
36 | |
42 | |
48 | |
51 | |
58 | |
69 | |
86 | |
102 | |
116 | |
126 | |
212 | |
219 | |
225 | |
231 | |
232 | |
238 | |
245 | |
251 | |
257 | |
263 | |
269 | |
Andra upplagor - Visa alla
History of the conquest of Mexico: With a preliminary view of the ..., Volym 2 William Hickling Prescott Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1867 |
History of The Conquest of Mexico: with a preliminary view of The ..., Volym 1 William Hickling Prescott Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1860 |
History of the Conquest of Mexico: With a Preliminary View of the ..., Volym 2 William Hickling Prescott Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1860 |
Vanliga ord och fraser
Alvarado Anahuac ancient arms army Axayacatl Aztec Aztec emperor beheld Bernal Diaz bien Cacama caciques Camargo capital Carta Casas Castilian causeway cavaliers Chich Cholula Christian chronicler ciudad commander Conquerors Conquest Conquista Cortés countrymen Crónica Cruz Cuba dark dicho Diego Velasquez emperor enemy eran Españoles Essai Politique estaban esto eyes fué garrison general's gent gold Gomara gran habia Herrera Hist hundred Ibid Indian Indios Ixtlilxochitl lake Lorenzana los Indios Malintzin manera Martyr Messico Mexicans Mexico monarch Montezuma mountain Narvaez natives nobles Nueva España officers Orbe Novo Oviedo palace person present prince pyramid quarters received royal rude Sahagun Sandoval says seemed seen Señor sent showed soldiers soon sovereign Spaniards Spanish spirit stone temple tenian Tenochtitlan teocalli Tezcucan Tezcuco thousand tierra tion Tlacopan Tlascala Toribio troops ubi supra Velasquez de Leon Vera Cruz warriors
Populära avsnitt
Sida 33 - Stretching far away at their feet were seen noble forests of oak, sycamore, and cedar, and beyond, yellow fields of maize and the towering maguey, intermingled with orchards and blooming gardens; for flowers, in such demand for their religious festivals, were even more abundant in this populous valley than in other parts of Anahuac.
Sida 34 - ... hamlets, and, in the midst, like some Indian empress with her coronal of pearls, — the fair city of Mexico, with her white towers and pyramidal temples, reposing, as it were, on the bosom of the waters, — the far-famed
Sida 231 - ... wounded, heedless whether it were friend or foe. The leading files, urged on by the rear, were crowded on the brink of the gulf. Sandoval, Ordaz, and the other cavaliers dashed into the water. Some succeeded in swimming their horses across ; others failed, and some, who reached the opposite bank, being overturned in the ascent, rolled headlong with their steeds into the lake. The infantry followed pellmell, heaped promiscuously on one another, frequently pierced by the shafts, or struck down...
Sida 47 - Amidst a crowd of Indian nobles, preceded by three officers of state, bearing golden wands, they saw the royal palanquin, blazing with burnished gold. It was borne on the shoulders of nobles, and over it a canopy of gaudy feather-work, powdered with jewels, and fringed with silver, was supported by four attendants of the same rank.
Sida 207 - ... rafters, which, thundering along the stairway, overturned the ascending Spaniards and carried desolation through their ranks. The more fortunate, eluding or springing over these obstacles, succeeded in gaining the first terrace; where, throwing themselves on their enemies, they compelled them, after a short resistance, to fall back. The assailants pressed on, effectually supported by a brisk fire of the musketeers from below, which...
Sida 49 - They were built of a red porous stone, drawn from quarries in the neighbourhood, and though they rarely rose to a second story, often covered a large space of ground. The flat roofs, azoteas, were protected by stone parapets, so that every house was a fortress.
Sida 34 - In the centre of the great basin were beheld the lakes, occupying then a much larger portion of its surface than at present, their borders thickly studded with towns and hamlets; and in the midst — like some Indian empress with her coronal of pearls — the fair city of Mexico, with her white towers and pyramidal temples, reposing, as it were, on the bosom of the waters — the far-famed 'Venice of the Aztecs.
Sida 51 - It was appropriated as the barracks of the Spaniards. The emperor himself was in the courtyard waiting to receive them. Approaching Cortes, he took from a vase of flowers, borne by one of his slaves, a massy collar, in which the shell of a species of craw-fish, much prized by the Indians, was set in gold, and connected by heavy links of the same metal. From this chain depended eight ornaments, also of gold, made in resemblance of the same shell-fish, a span in length each, and of delicate workmanship...
Sida 212 - ... eyes can reach. Our numbers are scarcely diminished by our losses. Yours, on the contrary, are lessening every hour. You are perishing from hunger and sickness. Your provisions and water are failing. You must soon fall into our hands. The bridges are broken down, and you cannot escape! There will be too few of you left to glut the vengeance of our gods...
Sida 208 - The area, though somewhat smaller than tho base of the teocalli, was large enough to afford a fair field of fight for a thousand combatants. It was paved with broad, flat stones. No impediment occurred over its surface, except the huge sacrificial block, and the temples of stone which rose to the height of forty feet, at the further extremity of the arena. One of these had been consecrated to the cross ; the other was still occupied by the Mexican war-god. The Christian and the Aztec contended...