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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: great Otomie race lived or lives among its mountains. They are a
braver nation than the Aztecs, speaking another language, of a
different blood, and made up of many clans. Sometimes they were
subject to the great Aztec empire, sometimes in alliance, and
sometimes at open war with it and in close friendship with the
Tlascalans. It was to draw the tie closer between the Aztecs and
the Otomies, who were to the inhabitants of Anahuac much what the
Scottish clans are to the people of England, that Montezuma took to
wife the daughter and sole legitimate issue of their great chief or
king. This lady died in childbirth, and her child was Otomie my
wife, hereditary princess of the Otomie. But though her rank was
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