cviii, cix; Sahagun, _Historia_, Lib.

xii, cap.ix.The four roads which met one on the journey to the Under World are also described in the _Popol Vuh_, p.83.Each is of a different color, and only one is safe to follow.] Dissatisfied with their reports, Montezuma determined to visit the underground realm himself, and by penetrating through the cave of Cincalco to reach the mysterious land where his attendants and priests professed to have been.

For obvious reasons such a suggestion was not palatable to them, and they succeeded in persuading him to renounce the plan, and their deceptions remained undiscovered.
Their idle tales brought no relief to the anxious monarch, and at length, when his artists showed him pictures of the bearded Spaniards and strings of glittering beads from Cortes, the emperor could doubt no longer, and exclaimed: "Truly this is the Quetzalcoatl we expected, he who lived with us of old in Tula.

Undoubtedly it is he, _Ce Acatl Inacuil_, the god of One Reed, who is journeying."[1] [Footnote 1: Tezozomoc, _Cronica Mexicana_, cap.

cviii.] On his very first interview with Cortes, he addressed him through the interpreter Marina in remarkable words which have been preserved to us by the Spanish conqueror himself.