116 THE LILIPUTIANS. ~

 

northern tribes, who occupied the ter-
ritory where we now live. One of the
races of natives, living in Central Amer-
ica, were called Aztecs. After the con-
quest of the country by Fernando Cor-
tez, the natives and the Spaniards
eradually intermarried with each other,
and after a while, the two races, to some
extent, became united in one. Some
of the ancient Aztecs, however, living
among the mountains, at some distance
from their civilized conquerors, still re-
mained in their barbarous state.
There has long been a tradition that,
nestled down amid the high mountains