File:Casa Montejo, Merida, Yucatan - Image from page 480 of "The magazine of American history with notes and queries" (1877).jpg
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[edit]DescriptionCasa Montejo, Merida, Yucatan - Image from page 480 of "The magazine of American history with notes and queries" (1877).jpg |
English: Casa de Montejo, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.
Identifier: magazineofamericv19stev Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries Year: 1877 (1870s) Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp Subjects: Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: rom those they deemed morepowerful than themselves, we cannot forget that in the time of the Inqui-sition Christian parents delivered up their own children to the torturer andexecutioner, in order to propitiate the dreaded Inquisitors and please theAlmighty God. Those who had so kindly received the monks were now enraged, remind-ing them of their promise that no Christians would trouble their people, THE CONQUEST OF THE MAYAS 459 and asking why they had destroyed their gods, which were certainly betterthan these new ones. The friars tried to pacify them, told the soldiersthat they were doing an immense amount of evil, and besought them todepart. Instead, they strove to make the monks appear responsible, per-suading the natives that the whole thing had been arranged by them, thusimperiling the lives of those unarmed men; for the indignant peoplewished to put them to death, and they had to flee, though afterward theirwould-be executioners sent messengers a hundred and fifty miles to beg Text Appearing After Image: THE HOUSE OF MONTEJO, AT MERIDA.BUILT IN 1549, THE FRONT COSTING $14,000. that they would forgive their wicked purpose and return. They did, andwere received as if they had been angels, but so often were they endan-gered by the conduct of their countrymen, that at the end of six monthsthey thought it safer to go and live in Mexico. Although Montejo had spent all his fortune in the attempt, he now hadno hope of getting any hold upon Yucatan. Nevertheless in 1537 heagain managed to obtain what was needed for another effort, and reachingChampoton put his son in command, he himself returning to Tabasco,whose people he was also endeavoring to bring under the Spanish yoke. 460 THE CONQUEST OF THE MAYAS Great was the sorrow of the natives at seeing another crowd of Span-iards landing in their country, but they disguised their feelings until somedays had elapsed, then came in a multitude to exterminate the enemy, ifpossible. They seized and killed the first sentinel who, in dying, shoutedat t Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. |
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