Excerpt from The History of Mexico Collected From, Spanish and Mexican Historians, From Manuscripts and Ancient Paintings of the Indians, Vol. 2 of 2: Illustrated by Charts, and Other Copper Plates, to Which Are Added, Critical Dissertations, on the Land, the Animals, and Inhabitants of Mexico When they arrived at that little island, which they called St. Juan (16 book VIII. Ulua little more than a mile distant from the shore of Chalchiuh cuecan; the Mexican governors of those coasts, confounded at the sight of vessels so large, and men of so strange an aspect and figure, consulted together what they should do on the occasion, and determined to repair in personto the court to give intelligence to the king of so extraordinary an occurrence. But in order to convey to him amore perfect idea of the particulars, they caused the vessels, artillery, arms, dress, and appearance of the new people to be represented in some mea sure by their painters; after which, they set off without farther delay to the court, to relate 'what had arrived upon the coast, presenting to the king, along with the paintings, some little balls of glass, which they had got from the Spaniards. Montezuma was extremely disturbed on hearing their account; but, to avoid any rash step rn an affair of such consequence and alarm, he held a council with Cacarnatzin, king of Acolhuacan, his nephew, Cuitlahuatzin, lord of Iztapalapan, his bro ther, and other twelve personages, his ordinary counsellors. After a long conference they concluded unanimously, that he who had landed upon that shore, with so great an army, could be no other person than Quetzalcoatl, the god of air, who had for many years been expected in that country; for there prevailed among those nations, as we have al ready mentioned, an ancient tradition, that such a deity, after having, by his beneficence and innocence of life, acquired the esteem and vene ration of the people in Tollan, Cholula, and Onohualco, had disap peared to them, promising to return atter'a certain period, to govern them in peace, and render them happy. The kings of those countries considered themselves the viceroys of that god, and trustees of the crown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.