504 CORONATION OF MONTEZUMA. 



LIB. vii. sary for his coronation. At that time a province lying farre 

 off towards the North Ocean was revolted from the crowne, 

 whither he led the flower of his people, well appointed. 

 There he warred with such valour and dexteritie that in the 

 end he subdued all the province, and punished the rebells 

 severely, returning with a great number of captives for the 

 sacrifices and many other spoiles. All the citties made him 

 solemne receptions at his return e, arid the Lords thereof 

 gave him water to wash, performing the offices of servants, 

 a thing not vsed by any of his predecessors. Such was the 

 feare and respect they bare him. In Mexico they made the 

 feasts of his coronation with great preparations of dances, 

 comedies, banquets, lights, and other inventions for many 

 daies. And there came so great a wealth of tributes from 

 all his countries that strangers vnknovvne came to Mexico, 

 and their very enemies resorted in great numbers disguised 

 to see these feasts, as those of Tlascala and Mechoacan : 

 the which Montec^uma having discovered, he commanded 

 they should be lodged and gently in treated, and honoured 

 as his own person. He also made them goodly galleries 

 like vnto his owne, where they might see and behold the 

 feasts. So they entred by night to those feasts, as the 

 king himselfe, making their sportes and maskes. And for 

 that I have made mention of these provinces, it shall not be 

 from the purpose to vnderstand that the inhabitants of 

 Mechoacan, Tlascala, and Tepeaca, would never yeelde to 

 the Mexicans, but did alwaies fight valiantly against them j 

 yea, sometimes the Mechoacans did vanquish the Mexicans, 

 as also those of Tepeaca did. In which place the Marquis 

 Don Fernando Cortes, after that he and the Spaniards were 

 expelled Mexico, pretended to build their first cittie, the 

 which he called (if I remember rightly) Segura de la Fron- 

 tera. But this peopling continued little : for having after 

 wards reconquered Mexico, all the Spaniards went to inha- 

 bite there. To conclude, those of Tepeaca, Tlascala, and 



