Excerpt from Cortes, or the Fall of Mexico, Vol. 2 of 3 When Ovid describes the memorable en counter between Perseus and the great monster of Ethiopia, he is at the pains to nar rate with what fury the creature snapped at the shadow of the flying hero, - a circumstance of trivial importance in itself, though both striking and characteristic; nay, he even relates how the warrior, at the first sightof the fair Andromeda, chained to the rock, and waiting 'to he devbuied. 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.