CONTENTS.
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| CHAPTER XXIII. | |
| UPRISING OF THE AZTECS. | |
| May-June, 1520. | |
| Character of the Aztecs — Spanish Quarters — The City in Arms — Growing Hatred toward the Invaders — Perilous Position of Alvarado — Montezuma Called to Interfere — Failing Provisions — Miraculous Water — Cortés to the Rescue — Rendezvous at Tlascala — The City and its People — The Army Joins Alvarado — Desperate Encounters. | 419 |
| CHAPTER XXIV. | |
| FIGHT UPON THE TEMPLE SUMMIT. | |
| June, 1520. | |
| The Natives Continue the Assault — Their Fierce Bravery — The Spaniards Build Turrets — Still the Mexicans Prove too Strong for Them — Montezuma Called to Intercede — He is Insulted and Stoned by his Subjects — Cortés Attempts Egress by the Tlacopan Causeway — Failure of Escobar to Take the Pyramid — Cortés Gains the Slippery Height — The Gladiatorial Combat There. | 436 |
| CHAPTER XXV. | |
| DEATH OF MONTEZUMA. | |
| June, 1520. | |
| A Living Death — The Old Imperial Party and the New Power — Aztec Defiance — Perilous Position of the Spaniards — Disappointment to Cortés — Another Sally — The Dying Monarch — He has No Desire to Live — His Rejection of a New Faith — He will None of the Heaven of the Spaniards — Commends his Children to Cortés — The Character of Montezuma and of his Reign. | 449 |
| CHAPTER XXVI. | |
| LA NOCHE TRISTE. | |
| June 30, 1520. | |
| The Captive-King Drama Carried too Far — Better had the Spaniards Taken Montezuma's Advice, and have Departed while Opportunity Offered — Diplomatic Value of a Dead Body — Necessity for an Immediate Evacuation of the City — Departure from the Fort — Midnight Silence — The City Roused by a Woman's Cry — The Fugitives Fiercely Attacked on All Sides — More Horrors. | 463 |
