HERNANDO CORTÉS

Water-color facsimile from the copy, now in possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (made during General Scott's occupation), from the original in the Hospital of the Purisima Concepcion, Mexico.

NORTH AMERICA

VOLUME IX

CENTRAL AMERICA AND MEXICO

BY

ALCÉE FORTIER, LITT. D.

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PROFESSOR OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES IN THE TULANE UNIVERSITY OF
LOUISIANA; PRESIDENT OF THE LOUISIANA HISTORICAL

SOCIETY, ETC., ETC.

Author of Louisiana Studies; Louisiana Folk-Tales; Histoire de la
Littérature Française; Sept Grands Auteurs du XIXe siècle; Précis
de l'Histoire de France; A History of Louisiana (four volumes),

JOHN ROSE FICKLEN, B. LET.

PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE IN THE TULANE

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UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA

Author of A History of Louisiana for schools, in coöperation with
Grace King; History and Civil Government of Louisiana; An
Outline of Greek History; A Sketch of the Acadians, etc., etc.

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