Transcriber’s Note
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OVER THE BRIDGES, THE HORSEMEN GALLOPED
THE FAIR GOD
OR, THE LAST OF THE ’TZINS
A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico
BY
LEW WALLACE
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
ERIC PAPE
From Mexico ... a civilization that might have instructed Europe was crushed out.... It has been her [Spain’s] evil destiny to ruin two civilizations, Oriental and Occidental, and to be ruined thereby herself.... In America she destroyed races more civilized than herself.—Draper, Intellectual Development of Europe.