THE 



HISTORY 



OF 



MEXICO. 



BOOK X. 



March of the Spaniards to Tezcuco ; their negotiations 

 with the Mexicans ; their excurfions and battles in the 

 environs of the Mexican lakes ; expeditions against 

 Ixcapichtlan, ^uauhnahuac, and other cities ; construc- 

 tion of the brigantines; confpiracy of fome Spaniards 

 against Cortes ; review, divijion, and posts, of the 

 Spanijh army ; Jiege of Mexico, imprifonment of king 

 Sguauhtemotzin, and fall of the Mexican empire. 



r^ORTES, who never quitted the thought of the con- 



queft of Mexico, attended mod diligently, while in 

 Tlafcala, to the building of the brigantines and to the 

 difcipline of his troops. He obtained of the fenate a 

 hundred men of burden, for the tranfportation of the 

 fails, cordage, iron, and other materials of the veffels, 

 which he had unrigged the preceding year on pur- 

 pofe to equip the brigantines ; for tar he extracted a 

 large quantity of turpentine from the pines on the great 

 mountain Matlalcueje. He gave notice to the Huexot- 

 Vol, III. B zincas, 



