| Teudile, the steward of the Aztecs, came in person on Easter
Sunday, meeting the Spanish on the shore by a little white-walled
Totonac town. Montezuma had, Teudile said, heard of the new arrivals;
he knew of the Grijalva expedition, and had heard of the battle on the
Tabasco river. He had instructed his steward to supply and feed his
guests and to offer them gifts of precious stones, and featherware.
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Montezuma sent four sets of "gods' array" as a gift to the Spaniards.

Credit: "General History of the Things
of New Spain" (Florentine Codex), Books I-IX and XII, translated
by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble. Santa Fe,
New Mexico and Salt Lake City: The School of American Research
and the University of Utah Press. Used courtesy of the University
of Utah Press.
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