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Foreword
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ing in practical affairs of life; that from these facts the expedition had its success.

To Mr. Alfred Percival Maudslay of Morney Cross, Hereford, England, for permission to quote from his beautiful translation, "The True History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo," and to Mr. Thomas A. Joyce of the Department of Ethnography of the British Museum for his generously allowing full use of his "Mexican Archæology," our thanks are due.

New York, 1916.