XII.
The Last of the Montezumas [124]-134
Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin, [124]; his character, [124]—A coronation festival, [125]—Royal robes, [125]—The life of an Aztec king, [126]; his capital, [126]—Diaz's description, [127]—A life of pleasure, [128]—State correspondence, [128]—Chapultepec, [129]—Montezuma's cypress, [129]—Clouds on the horizon, [130]—Sinister predictions, [130]—The coming of the white men, [131]—An unhappy monarch, [131]—Landing of the strangers, [132]—Velasquez de Léon, [132]; his expedition to Yucatan, [133]—Grijalva visits Mexico, [133]—Montezuma's embassy, [133].