Montezuma had also plantations of medicinal and useful herbs, gardens for the culture of flowers and trees, where countless birds sang and nested among the branches, and ponds and baths of fresh water where the water came in at one end and flowed out at the other. All the ponds and tanks were substantially walled with masonry, well cemented, as was also the theatre where his singers, dancers and clowns performed.
her daughter still live in writings of the old missionary, Sahagun. The following extracts are from Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico":—"This I tell you that you may know that I and your father are sources of your being; it is we who now instruct you. See that you receive our words and treasure them in your breast. Take care that your garments are such as are decent and proper; and observe that you do not adorn yourself with much finery, since this is a mark of vanity and folly. Let your clothes be becoming and neat that you may appear neither fantastic nor mean. "When you speak do not hurry jour words from uneasiness, but speak deliberately and calmly. Do not raise your voice very high, nor speak very low, but in a moderate tone. Neither mince when you speak, nor when you salute, nor speak through your nose; but let your words be proper, of a good sound and your voice gentle. "In walking, my daughter, see that you behave becomingly, neither going with haste nor too slowly, and when you are in the street do not carry your head much inclined or your body bent; nor as little go with your head very much raised, since it is mark of ill-breeding. Walk through the streets quietly and with propriety. Another thing that you must attend to, my daughter, is, that, when you are in the street, you do not go looking hither and thither, nor turning your head to look at this and that. Look upon those you meet with serene countenance, and give no one occasion of being offended with you. See, my daughter, that you give yourself no concern about the words you may hear, in going
