Tradition says it was at our “Indianon their way, led by the mystic prophecies of their priests to the place “where an eagle perched on a nopal on a rock should devour a serpent/* The first Spaniards who came from Mexilt; o to found the missions near San Antonio crossed the river at thesame place, and during the campaign 61 Santa Ana against the Americans in (he various settlements to the north of us, the Mexican troops frequentlycrossed and recrossed at Laredo.A pageant showing the southwarddrive of the Aztecs in their seareh?j||pempire: the eoming of the first I ran