The wonders of nature and art; or, A concise account of whatever is most curious and remarkable in the world; whether relating to its animal, vegetable and mineral productions, or to the manufactures, buildings and inventions of its inhabitants, compiled from historical and geographical works of established celebrity, and illustrated with the discoveries of modern travellers / [Thomas Smith].
- Smith, Thomas, 1775 or 1776-1830
- Date:
- 1803-1804
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The wonders of nature and art; or, A concise account of whatever is most curious and remarkable in the world; whether relating to its animal, vegetable and mineral productions, or to the manufactures, buildings and inventions of its inhabitants, compiled from historical and geographical works of established celebrity, and illustrated with the discoveries of modern travellers / [Thomas Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![after meeting: and paying their compliments to the Spanish general, fell back, and then dividing them- selves made a lane for the Spaniards. Then came another body of the nobility of a superior dignity, who made a more splendid ap]>earanoe ; and in the midst ofthem was the emperor Montezuma, carried in a chair of beaten goirl, on the shoulders of his favourite courtiers, whilst four of them sustained a canopy over his head, The whole was adorned with beautiful feathers, through which the gold appeared predominant, and the emperor was pre- ceded by three officers with rod« of gold, the har- bingers of his approach, on whose appearance the people fell upon their faces, not dat ing to look upon their monarch. Cortez dismounting when the Mexican emperor drew near, the latter alighted from his chair, and carpets were spread in the streets for him to tread on. He advanced, with a solemn slow pace, leaning on the arms of two princes his relations, and was met by Cortez with a profound reverence, which the emperor an- swered bv touching the ground with his hand, and afterwards raising it to his lips ; which was looked upon as a great condescension, and added to the esteem and veneration his subjects already had for the Spaniards. The conference between the Mexi- can emperor and Cortez was short at this inter- view, after which Montezuma commanded One of his princes to conduct the general to the palace appointed for his residence, and then returned to his own. Besides the two palaces already mentioned, Montezuma had several pleasure houses in and about the city; in one of which were great galle- ries, supported by pillars of jasper, and stored with all sorts of land-fowl and birds that Mexico](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22018232_0236.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
