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city of Mexico for 90 days against Cortes, in spite of European mili- 

 tary science. His capture, which took place on the date ce Coatl yei 

 Calli, or August 13, 1521 (discussed in the previous chapter), put an 

 end to the war. Cortes at first treated him kindly, but later (accord- 

 ing to a marginal note in Chimalpahin it must have happened on the 

 day 1 Ocelotl, that is, as we reckon it, 169 days later, about the end ol 

 the year 1521) sent him and four other influential Mexicans prisoners 

 to Coyouacan and strove to extort from them by torture information 

 as to where were hidden the treasures which the Spaniards had to 



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Fig. hi. Mexican sviuIxjIs of persons and places. 



leave behind in Mexico the year previous at the time of their flight. 

 Qiiauhtemoc was afterward baptized and named for his godfather 

 Don Hernando de Alvarado Quauhtemoctzin. Cortes appointed 

 him gobernador of Mexico, but afterward had him hanged on sus- 

 picion of conspiracy, together with Tetlepanquetzatzin and Couana- 

 cochtzin, the kings of Tlacopan and Tetzcoco. This haj)pened in the 

 year 1524 at Ueimollan during the expedition to Honduras. " He 

 died in some sort like a Christian" (ye yuhqui ye christianoyotica 

 momiquilli), says Chimalpahin. "A cross w^as put into his hand, his 



