DEDICATED
TO
HUBERT HOWE BANCROFT,
The pains-taking historian and the one of all others who induced
to a final effort
THIS BOOK,
By his grateful friend and ardent partisan,
THE AUTHOR.
CONTENTS.
| EGYPT. | |
| PAGE. | |
| The Dispersal at Shinar | [1] |
| Sojourn in Egypt | [4] |
| Sun Worship | [7] |
| Expulsion from Egypt | [36] |
| Mizraim and Lud | [37] |
| The Mourning Shepherds | [41] |
| The Journey | [43] |
AZTLAN. | |
| The Valley of the Mississippi | [53] |
| The Morning Song of the Mound Builders | [59] |
| The Evening Thanksgiving and Prayer | [61] |
| The Prophet's Death | [63] |
| Departure of Wabun | [72] |
| Return and Strife | [79] |
| Prehistoric Rendezvous of the Aztecs | [84] |
| The Toltecs Journey South | [88] |
| The Aztecs—Aztlan | [92] |
ANAHUAC. | |
| The Aztec's Journey and Settlement South | [102] |
| The Empire of Montezuma | [105] |
| The Landing of the Spaniards | [116] |
| Arrival of the Spaniards at Mexico | [125] |
| Death of Montezuma | [134] |
| Conclusion | [142] |
| Malinche | [151] |
| The Harp of the West | [181] |
ARGUMENT OF THE POEM.
From the moment of my earliest acquaintance with Colonial History, I have felt all the pressure of a task laid upon me, tightening its grasp as I reached maturer years; that of an attempt to rescue the Aztecs from their letterless and mythical position in history, to the position which their possibilities at least argue for them; and this feeling has been far less the outgrowth of the enthusiasm awakened for the Aztecs, as the indignation felt at the whole conduct of the Spanish Conquest.