A complete collection of voyages made into North and South America in due order as they happen'd ... from Christopher Columbus ... to this present time ... The whole extracted from the works of the most considerable travellers. Accurately describing each country ... / By Monsr. L'abbé Bellegarde of the Royal Academy. Translated from the French original printed at Paris.

  • Du Perier.
Date:
1711
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Credit: A complete collection of voyages made into North and South America in due order as they happen'd ... from Christopher Columbus ... to this present time ... The whole extracted from the works of the most considerable travellers. Accurately describing each country ... / By Monsr. L'abbé Bellegarde of the Royal Academy. Translated from the French original printed at Paris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    their Perfons to the greateft Hazard: They: further told him, they were not ignorant’ of. what falfe Rumours had bin fpread abroad a- | gainft them,to render their Inclinations andCon-’. duct fufpeé&ted to him; but that if he would ho- nour their City with his own Prefence,he fhould be fully convine’d of the Falfity of thefeRumours. The Lihabitants of Tafeatetal, who had fore- warn’d Cortez againft Æonrezuma’s finifter: Defigns, did all that in them lay to divert him from going to’ Churultecal, to make trial of their Fidelity in Perfon; but feeing he per- fitted in his Refolution of going thither, they offer’d to attend him with 1ocooo Fighting Men. He thank’d them ‘for their gencrous offer, but would take only 6000 along with him, becaufe he was unwilling to be trou bled with fo vaft and ufelefs a Multitude; and fear’d, not without reafon, that his Spas niards might be infeéted with their diforderly way of living in the Field. The next. follow ing Day, the Chief Inhabitants of Churulrecal TheCityofcame out of the City, to meet Cortez. with Chutulie- Trumpets, Drums, Singers and Dancers at the cal. Head of them, to give him all the Demon {trations of their fincere Inclinations- and Joy that could be. He was conducted: ‘with all imaginable Pomp, and lodg’d in one of the fineft Houfes of the Place ; his little Army had likewife convenient Quarters affign’d them, | and were well provided with Provifions and — all other Neceflaries: But having obferv’d fome of thefe Trap holes, againft which they had a Caution given them before-hand, they kept, during their March, conftantly upon their Guard, and avoided thefe Traps by their Cir- cumfpeétion : What encreas’d their Sufpicion wis, that after a while ‘the Inhabitants feldom pay’d