Chapter VIII
DREADFUL SUFFERINGS OF THE BESIEGED--SPIRIT OF GUATEMOZIN--MURDEROUS ASSAULTS--CAPTURE OF GUATEMOZIN--EVACUATION OF THE CITY--TERMINATION OF THE SIEGE--REFLECTIONS
Dreadful Famine in the City 85
Cannibalism 86
The Corpses fill the Streets 87
Pestilence sweeps off Multitudes 88
Alarming Prodigies 88
Spirit of Guatemozin 89
Cortés requests an Interview with him 90
Guatemozin consents 90
He avoids a Parley 91
Murderous Assault 93
Appalling Scene of Carnage 93
Preparations for the final Attack 96
Cortés urges an Interview 97
The Signal given 98
Aztecs attempt to escape 99
Capture of Guatemozin 100
Cessation of Hostilities 101
Person of Guatemozin 102
Brought before Cortés 102
His Wife, Montezuma’s Daughter 104
Furious Thunder-storm 106
Mexicans abandon their City 106
Number of those who perished 108
Amount of the Spoil 109
Cortés dismisses his Allies 109
Rejoicings of the Spaniards 110
Solemn Thanksgiving 111
Reflections 111
Aztec Institutions 112
Their moral Influence 114
Cruelty ascribed to the Spaniards 114
The Conquest as a military Achievement 117
Notice of the Historian Solís 119
His Life and Writings 121
Sahagun’s Twelfth Book 125
BOOK VII
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