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Updated: June 25, 2025
There is an old Mexican bridge near Tezcuco which seems to be the original Puente de las Bergantinas, the bridge where Cortes had the brigantines launched on the lake of Tezcuco. This bridge has a span of about twenty feet, and is curious as showing how nearly the Mexicans had arrived at the idea of the arch.
If in fact there flowed in her veins the blood of that princess of the golden king of Tezcuco who could have smiled at the whisperings of her lord and the tender cadences of music floating through the gardens his love had made for her, while just here his priests made their sacrifices and she, turning her eyes from his ardent ones, now and then languorously watched was Zoraida mad or was she simply ancient Aztec or Toltec or Tezcucan, born four or five hundred years after her time?
Do you now make your way back to Tezcuco. Tell your lord all that has happened, and that I am with the Spaniards, and shall accompany them if, as I believe, they go forward to Mexico; that I hope to see all my friends again, before long; and that I always think of their kindness to me."
This does not seem much to give for good hackneys, as these were; but they were not particularly cheap for Mexico. While we were at Tezcuco, Mr. Christy used to ride one of Mr. Bowring's horses, a pretty little chestnut, which carried him beautifully, and had cost just eleven dollars, or forty-six shillings.
But you had best disguise yourself well Tezcuco will be in an uproar tonight; for the capture of Cacama will be known there ere many hours, if it is not known already." She soon returned with the required permission. This time Roger dressed himself in the attire of a trader, as being less likely to attract attention.
The city of Tezcuco, which lay about half a league from the shore of the lake, was probably the best position Cortés could have chosen for the headquarters of the army.
"It is wonderful," the queen said; "and it would be well indeed if, as you say, the youth of Tezcuco could shoot like that." Amenche said nothing, but her cheeks were flushed with excitement and pleasure. That evening, when Cacama was conversing alone with Roger, he said: "My friend, you know that the Tlascalan caziques have given their daughters as wives to some of the Spaniards.
In this valley are the two ponds, or lagunas, of Zumpango and San Cristobal, the highest waters of Mexico; and in it also is the half of the Tezcuco, which is the lowest laguna of the valleys.
This expectation was fully realized, and some fine idols of hard stone were found, with an infinitude of pottery and small objects. When I look through my notes about Tezcuco, I do not find much more to mention, except that a favourite dish here consists of flies' eggs fried. These eggs are deposited at the edge of the lake, and the Indians fish them out and sell them in the market-place.
The Ponds Chalco, Xochimulco, and Tezcuco were never Lakes. My first view of the Valley of Mexico was from the point where the Acapulco road passes the Cross of the "Marquis of the Valley." I had read with eagerness the History of the Conquest, and of the adventures of the noble Conquistador.
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