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This word mosques Cortéz constantly makes use of, apparently to keep before the people of Spain the idea that he Was conducting a holy war.
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This must have been the great fissure, and not the crater. I see no objection to this statement; for in this Cortéz had no motive to falsify, and it is the ordinary appearance of an active volcano.
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Bréva Reséña Histórica, by Gen. Tornel. Mexico, 1852. p. 135.
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Folsom's Letters of Cortéz, p. 49.
17 ([Return])
Bernal Diaz. Lockhart's translation. London, 1844. Vol. i. p. 157.