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STX MONTHS IN MEXICO. 



CHAPTER X. 



Hospital of Jesus de los Naturales, erected by Cortez. — 

 Public establishment for pledging- Goods. 



We visited the Hospital of Jesus in company 

 with the Count Luchese, uncle to the Duke 

 de Montleone, the descendant and heir of the 

 great Ferdinand Cortez, who founded and 

 endowed this institution ; and in the chapel of 

 which, by his own express desire, are de- 

 posited his bones. The house is large, 

 forming a square, and enclosing a court ; the 

 apartments for the patients are clean and airy, 

 the offices for tfie attendants comfortable and 

 well laid out. In one of the rooms were 

 several portraits of the family, and one like- 



