LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| [The Meeting of Cortés and Montezuma] | [Frontispiece] |
| From a painting especially made for this edition by L. Kowalsky. | |
| [Cortés Receiving the Embassy of Montezuma] | [14] |
| After the painting in the National Museum at Mexico. | |
| [Cortés sinking his Ships] | [70] |
| After the painting by F. Sans. | |
| [Audience of Cortés with Montezuma] | [260] |
| After the painting in the National Museum at Mexico. | |
| [Map of the Valley of Mexico at the Period of the Conquest] | [281] |
| [Montezuma] | [304] |
| After the portrait published by Fray Prudentio Sandoval in his “History of Charles V.,” edition of 1614. | |