The Amazons of South America; thrilling adventures of reckless buccaneers and daring freebooters (1899) (14743710386)

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Title: The Amazons of South America; thrilling adventures of reckless buccaneers and daring freebooters

Year: 1899 (1890s)

Authors: Stevens, Charles McClellan, 1861- (from old catalog)

Subjects: Amazons

Publisher: Chicago, A. Belford & Co.

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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tails than that of Cholula. After the first recoil ofhorror, the frenzied people turned upon the Spaniardslike ravenous wolves. Supplies were cut ofif, and theaudacious invaders were lost unless help came soon. Through the influence of Marina, in whom BernalDiaz, the most reliable historian of the expedition,says he never saw weakness or fear, Montezuma wasinduced to mount the battlements and persuade hispeople not to storm the fortress. In this they obeyedhim, but it was the last respect they ever paid to himwhom they had reverenced and feared next to theirgods. At this time Cortes, triumphant over the enemiesof his own country, and with the additional forcesacquired from his capture of Narvaez, entered the city.Soon after the drawbridges on the causeways, con-necting the island on which the city was situated withthe outer shore of the lake, were destroyed, and oneof the most desperate and relentless conflicts everwaged was begun. Slowly the infuriated hosts, regardless of the bloody

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MARINA 133 havoc wrought against them by sword and cannon,pressed closer and closer upon the wretched garrison.At last came the pitiable end of Montezuma. He waspersuaded to ascend the central turret of the palaceand advise his people to permit the Spaniards unmo-lested to leave the city. As he appeared, the war criesceased, and many fell prostrate as before the presenceof a god. He spoke only a few words in favor of leni-ency to the Spaniard, when reverence vanished, andthe people were electrified with scorn. Base Aztec! they cried. Woman! Coward!The white men have made you fit only to weave andspin! Then a hail of missiles fell about him, and he sankinto the arms of his attendants, mortally wounded.While the natives were paralyzed with the revulsionof horror at having slain him whom they had so fearedand venerated, Cortez, at the head of a little band,assaulted the pyramid temple, from whose broad plat-form at the top a band of Mexican nobles were ena-bled to throw into the Spanish

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