58 THE TRIBUTE EOLL OF MONTEZUMA. 



many perils is at last in a fair way to be rendered accessible to the scientific world, 

 will add so much to our knowledge that it would be time lost to seek definite conclu- 

 sions from the fragment here presented. The object of the Society which publishes 

 it is accomplished when this testimony to a past culture is thus laid before the 

 students of human development with such brief words of introduction. 



