LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

	PAGE
[Guatemozin brought before Cortés]	[Frontispiece]
From a painting especially made for this edition by L. Kowalsky.
[The Standard of Cortés]	[46]
From a photograph of the original, especially made for this edition, in the National Museum at Mexico.
[View of the Great Square in Mexico]	[76]
After the drawing by Raphael Ximeno, engraved by Bouquet.
[The Torture of Guatemozin]	[130]
After the painting in the Academy of Fine Arts at Mexico.
[Fac-simile of the Signature of Cortés]	[220]
[Portrait of Hernando Cortés]	[226]
After a painting at Madrid.

BOOK VI
SIEGE AND SURRENDER OF MEXICO
(CONTINUED)

INDIAN FLOTILLA DEFEATED—OCCUPATION OF THE CAUSEWAYS—DESPERATE ASSAULTS—FIRING OF THE PALACES—SPIRIT OF THE BESIEGED—BARRACKS FOR THE TROOPS

1521