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their bodies dressed for food, to be deyour-


ed by the people at religious festivals


ed their pyramidal altars far above the high


est edifces. Thousands Of their brother men


were thus sacrificed annually The temple Of
Maxtili, their war god, was SO constructed
that its great alarm gong, sounding to battle,
reused the valley for three leagues around,
and called three hundred thousand Aztecs
to the service Of their monarch. So vast
was the collection Of birds Of prey, in >
building devoted to them, that 500 turkeys,
the cheapest meat in Mexico, were allowed
for their consumption. Such wers tho
"Halls of the Montezumas /" The summer
residence Of the monarch, on the hill Of
Chappoltepec, overlooking the city, was
surrounded by gardens of several miles in
extent, and here were preserved until the
middle Of the last century, two statues Of
the Emperor and his father. The great cy-
press trees, under which the Aztec sover-
eign and his associates once held their
moonlight revels, still shade the royal gar
dens. Some of them fifty feet in circumfe-
renee, are several thousand years old, but
are yet as green as in the days Of Montezu-
ma, whose ashes, or those of his ancestors,
rendered sacred, in the eyes Of the native
Mexicans, the hill Of Chappoltepec. Ma
tural decay and a waning population now
marks the seat Of power Of the great Mon
tezumas