[6] Sahagun, Hist. de Nueva Esp.
[7] Ixtlilxochitl, son of Nezahualpilli, king of Tezcuco.
[8] King of Tezcuco.
[9] See Prescott’s Conq. of Mexico.
[10] Guatamozin, nephew to Montezuma. Of him Bernal Diaz says: “This monarch was between twenty-three and twenty-four years of age, and could in all truth be called a handsome man, both as regards his countenance and figure. His face was rather of an elongated form, with a cheerful look; his eye had great expression, both when he assumed a majestic expression, or when he looked pleasantly around; the color of his face inclined to white more than to the copper-brown tint of the Indians in general.”—Diaz, Conquest of Mexico, Lockhart’s Trans., Vol. IV., p. 110.
[11] Prescott’s Conq. of Mexico, Vol. I., p. 417.
[12] The God of War,—aptly called the “Mexican Mars.”
[13] There was a fire for each altar in the temples which was inextinguishable; and so numerous were the altars, and so brilliant their fires, that they kept the city illuminated throughout the darkest nights. Prescott, Conq. of Mexico, Vol. I., p 72.
[14] The Aztec currency consisted of bits of tin, in shape like a capital T, of quills of gold-dust, and of bags of cocoa, containing a stated number of grains. Sahagun, Hist. de Nueva Esp.
[15] Temple. The term appears to have applied particularly to the temples of the god Huitzil’.—Tr.