. North America; or, The United States and the adjacent countries. founder of their religion; and,\ day and niglit, a vast retinue .of priests attended\ the awful rites of his worship. iN 3. Montezuma now sent word to Cortez, that he \\ was willing to receive him into his capital, but at \^ the same time plotted his destruction. Agreeably | \ 10. What did the chiefs of TJascaia do? What took place | > after three battles ? > < Chapter XVII. — Questions. — 1. What of Cholula ? 2. Pop- < ^ ulation of Cholula? What shrine v;as here? 3. What did \ ^ Montezuma do ? ^ MEXICO, CONTINUED.
. North America; or, The United States and the adjacent countries. founder of their religion; and,\ day and niglit, a vast retinue .of priests attended\ the awful rites of his worship. iN 3. Montezuma now sent word to Cortez, that he \\ was willing to receive him into his capital, but at \^ the same time plotted his destruction. Agreeably | \ 10. What did the chiefs of TJascaia do? What took place | > after three battles ? > < Chapter XVII. — Questions. — 1. What of Cholula ? 2. Pop- < ^ ulation of Cholula? What shrine v;as here? 3. What did \ ^ Montezuma do ? ^ MEXICO, CONTINUED. 53 to his directions, the Spaniards were received, withan appearance of friendship, into Cholula; but itwas intended to fall upon them and destroy of the impending danger, Cortez took afearful revenge. 4. He arrested some of the chief priests, and ex-torted a confession of the meditated assault. Heseized the magistrates, and then let loose his sol-diers and his allies upon the devoted city. Thestreets were a horrid spectacle of blood and carnage;. Cortez looking at the City of Mexico. 4. What revenge dia Cortez take for the intended massacre \of his army ? \ N 54 MEXICO, CONTINUED. >\ \ \ the air rung with mad shouts of revelry and shrieks n ^ of despair. Six thousand Cholulans were slaugh- > V tered like unresisting sheep, not a Spaniard having \i fallen! \S 5. Cortez now advanced toward the capital, and, s > as men are apt to rally around the successful, he \i was hailed as a deliverer, by many of the subject ^S, tribes. As he approached Tenochtitlan, he came i\ to the summit of a mountain called Aliualco. and \ V looking down into the splendid valley that lay be- \^ fore him, his eye fell upon the capital, situated in > V the midst of a lake. What admiration must have \\ filled the hearts of the Spaniards, when their eyes \\ first beheld that wonderful city ! \\ G. As Cortez advanced, his heart seems to have >J grown more bold and resolute, whi
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