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Excerpt from Cortes and Montezuma When Columbus reached this continent of ours, he little knew how great a land was before him. Nor would he have then believed, had he been told, that in this new continent were people whose cities were hundreds of years old, and whose manners and customs were not so very different from those of the people of the old world he had just left. I often wonder what he would have said, if he could have seen the ruins of the mound-builders, or had visited the beautiful golden cities of the Aztecs. His own surprise, I'm sure, would have been equal to that of the Spanish people themselves when Columbus returned from his long voyage and told them of the new shore across the great water. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.