CONTENTS.

BOOK ONE.
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I.Our Mother has a Fortune waiting us Yonder[1]
II.Quetzal’, the Fair God[7]
III.A Challenge[13]
IV.Tenochtitlan at Night[16]
V.The Child of the Temple[20]
VI.The Cû of Quetzal’, and Mualox, the Paba[25]
VII.The Prophecy on the Wall[30]
VIII.A Business Man in Tenochtitlan[39]
IX.The Questioner of the Morning[46]
X.Going to the Combat[50]
XI.The Combat[59]
XII.Mualox, and his World[68]
XIII.The Search for Quetzal’[74]
BOOK TWO.
I.Who are the Strangers?[83]
IIA Tezcucan Lover[89]
III.The Banishment of Guatamozin[95]
IV.Guatamozin at Home[103]
V.Night at the Chalcan’s[112]
VI.The Chinampa[120]
VII.Court Gossip[126]
VIII.Guatamozin and Mualox[130]
IX.A King’s Banquet[135]
X.The ’Tzin’s Love[141]
XI.The Chant[150]
BOOK THREE.
I.The First Combat[162]
II.The Second Combat[169]
III.The Portrait[180]
IV.The Trial[183]
BOOK FOUR.
I.The King gives a Trust to Hualpa[192]
II.The King and the ’Tzin[198]
III.Love on the Lake[207]
IV.The King demands a Sign of Mualox[214]
V.The Massacre in Cholula[220]
VI.The Conqueror will come[230]
VII.Montezuma goes to meet Cortez[239]
VIII.The Entry[246]
BOOK FIVE.
I.Public Opinion[257]
II.A Message from the Gods[261]
III.How Ills of State become Ills of Society[267]
IV.Ennuyé in the Old Palace[275]
V.Alvarado finds the Light of the World[282]
VI.The Iron Cross[291]
VII.The Christians in the Toils[299]
VIII.The Iron Cross comes back to its Giver[306]
IX.Truly Wonderful—A Fortunate Man hath a Memory[315]
X.How the Iron Cross came back[317]
XI.The Christian takes care of his own[325]
BOOK SIX.
I.The Lord Hualpa flees his Fortune[339]
II.Whom the Gods destroy they first make mad[347]
III.The Public Opinion makes Way[357]
IV.The ’Tzin’s Farewell to Quetzal’[364]
V.The Cells of Quetzal’ again[374]
VI.Lost in the Old Cû[379]
VII.How the Holy Mother helps her Children[385]
VIII.The Paba’s Angel[392]
IX.Life in the Paba’s World[404]
X.The Angel becomes a Beadswoman[410]
XI.The Public Opinion proclaims itself—Battle[427]
BOOK SEVEN.
I.The Heart can be wiser than the Head[438]
II.The Conqueror on the Causeway again[449]
III.La Viruela[454]
IV.Montezuma a Prophet.—His Prophecy[455]
V.How to yield a Crown[462]
VI.In the Leaguer[465]
VII.In the Leaguer yet[473]
VIII.The Battle of the Mantas[481]
IX.Over the Wall,—Into the Palace[489]
X.The Way through the Wall[499]
XI.Battle in the Air[510]
XII.In the Interval of the Battle—Love[524]
XIII.The Beginning of the End[527]
XIV.The King before his People again[532]
XV.The Death of Montezuma[544]
XVI.Adieu to the Palace[550]
XVII.The Pursuit begins[559]
XVIII.La Noche Triste[562]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Over the Bridges, the Horsemen galloped (p. 427)[Frontispiece]
A Clang of Sandaled Feet[30]
The Fortunate Hero, standing so calmly before them[70]
The Monarch’s Face changed visibly[158]
“Out of the Way, Dog!” shouted Sandoval[246]
Looked gloomily into the Water[358]
She gave him the Signal[462]
Cortes drew Rein only at its Foot[478]

THE FAIR GOD.
FROM THE SPANISH OF
FERNANDO DE ALVA.

INTRODUCTORY.

Fernando De Alva,[1] a noble Tezcucan, flourished, we are told, in the beginning of the sixteenth century. He was a man of great learning, familiar with the Mexican and Spanish languages, and the hieroglyphics of Anahuac. Ambitious to rescue his race from oblivion, and inspired by love of learning, he collected a library, availed himself of his knowledge of picture-writing, became master of the songs and traditions, and, in the Castilian language, composed books of merit.

It was scarcely possible that his labors should escape the researches of Mr. Prescott, who, with such incomparable genius, has given the world a history of the Conquest of Mexico. From him we have a criticism upon the labors of the learned Fernando, from which the following paragraph is extracted.