MONTEZUMA. 
135 
" The meal of the monarch ended, all his guards and domestics sat 
down to dinner; and, as near as I could judge, above a thousand plates of 
those eatables that I have mentioned, were laid before them, with vessels 
of foaming chocolate and fruit in immense quantity. For his women, 
and various inferior servants, his establishment was of a prodigious ex- 
pense ; and we wQt^ astonished, amid such a profusion, at the vast regu- 
larity that prevailed. 
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MEXICAN ARMS. 
