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| 4. | A raven croaking. See Vol. I. p. 98. |
| 5. | Abdication of the Emperor Montezuma. See the Codex Vaticanus A, p. 82 (Kingsborough). |
| 6. | The Spaniards gazed with greedy eyes. See the Codex Tepetlaoztoc, the vase in the Bristol Museum, a small recently found quauhxicalli, a snake-|headed censer and a stone monkey's head in the Mexico Museum, a bowl with a head between the jaws of the earth-monster in the British Museum, and bowls figured in Seler's Gesammelte Abhandlungen, pp. 290, 328, as well as Diaz, Maudslay, Vol. I. p. 144. |
| 12. | Short-eared owl (Asia accipitrinus), an evil omen as being the bird of the god of death, Mictlantecutli. See Vol. I. p. 213. |
| 46. | Priests making new fire in preparation for war. See the Codex Zouche, p. 78. |
| 55. | The brow of Cortés darkened as he said to Alvarado, "Your conduct has been that of a madman." |
| 57. | The Prince Cuitlahua, Montezuma's brother, accepted the post of honour and danger. |
| 70. | The priests with frantic gestures animating them to avenge their insulted deities. On the left is a priest of Huitzilopotchli, with an effigy of Painal on his back. On the right a priest of Mixcoatl. The central figure may, perhaps, be a priest of Tezcatlipoca. See Sahagun and Mexican archæology, Joyce, Ch. II. |
| 73. | Cortés dashed to the assistance of his secretary. The Anonymous Conqueror on p. 23 tells of horses being killed by maquahuitl blows on the head and breast. Such statements, supported by the Codices Telleriano-Remensis, Vaticanus A, Baranda, and the Lienzo di Tlaxcala, prove that horses were by no means always armour-plated. |
| 75. | The Aztecs nearly succeeded in scaling the walls. |
| 76. | "Why do I see my people here in arms against the palace of my fathers?" The Emperor has donned the tlacaeuatl, the tragic sacrificial vesture of the god Xipe. He is crowned with the turquoise xiuitzontli. See the Codex Cozcatzin, p. 14, and Seler, Gesammelte Abhandlungen, p. 401. |
| 78. | The swollen tide of their passions swept away all the barriers of ancient reverence. |
| 87. | Fighting for possession of the temple. |
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