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With the new troops which Cortes brought to Mexi- 

 co, he had an army of nine thoufand men, but there not 

 being accommodation for them all in the quarters, they 

 occupied fome of thofe buildings which were within the 

 enclofure of the greater temple, and the nearer! to the 

 quarters. From their multitude alfo the fcarcity of pro- 

 vifions, already occafioned by the want of a market, was 

 augmented, for the Mexicans, in hatred to the Spaniards, 

 would no longer hold any. Cortes therefore fent to 

 tell Montezuma, with flrong threats, that he mould give 

 orders for a market to be held, that they might provide 

 themfelves with every thing necetfary. Montezuma 

 anfwered, that the perfons of the greateft authority to 

 whom he could truft the execution of fuch an order, 

 were all, as he was, in prifon; that fome of them mufl 

 be fet at liberty, that his wilh might be accomplished. 

 Cortes let the prince Cuitlahuatzin, the brother of Mon- 

 tezuma, out of confinement, not forefeeing that the li- 

 berty of that prince would be the caufe of ruin to the 

 Spaniards. Cuitlahuatzin never returned to the quar- 

 ters, nor re-eflabliflied the market, either becaufe he 

 would not favour the Spaniards, or becaufe the Mexicans 

 would not coiifent to it, but compelled him to exercife 

 his pod of general. In fact, it was he who from that 

 time commanded the troops, and directed all the hoftili- 

 ties againft the Spaniards, until at laft, by the death of 

 his brother, he was elected king of Mexico. 



On the day on which Cortes entered into Mexico, 

 there was no movement made by the people; but the 

 day after they began to fiing and (hoot fo many (tones 

 at the Spaniards, that they appeared, as Cortes fays, 

 like a temped : and fo many arrows, that they covered 

 the pavement of the court and the terraces of the pa- 

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