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Show .. . .. '. . . ,' ', ' •• \1 ~ f I ', I , t o tf" t, ... I II I I I ..· .I . t . .• .t . . ,. . .. .. .•. .. l ,• .. • ~ •• • • f • • • ; : : f I : I II I • 1 I I t t I I • I II jt .; f. .•• • . . It I I t ... . .. I I t • I 1 I 1 • I I I I I I I t t I • 1 • o I l,t ' '• o I t I . . tIt I f I I ~ I '• . ' . ·.~·..· ',. ·il·:i S T 0 R Y • OF ME X I C 0. BOOK II. ~ of time, and without any confidcrable lofs, h~ brought all the feven cities again under his obedience. Thefe viCtories were celebrated with great rejoicings during eight days in the court, and rewards given to the officers and foldiers who had dil1ingui.£hed themfelves. As the 'evil example of fome ll:atcs had excited others to rebellion, fo did the unfucce[sful iJTnc fervc in future as a caution not to form new confpi-racies againfi the loyalty due to their fovereigrt; from whence, during the refl: of his government, which, according to hHl:orians, lafied fixty years, ~inatzin enjoyed .the utmoft tranquillity. When he died they obferved ceremonies to him. which had never 'been pratlifed with his anceftors; they opened his body, took out his bowels, and prepared it with different aromatic fubftances, to keep it iome time free from corruption. They afterwards placed it in a great chair, clothed in royal habits, and armed with a bow and arrow, and put at his feet a wooden eagle, and behind him a tyger, to fignify his bravery and intrepidity. In this ftate it was expofed for forty days; and after the ufual mourning, burnt, and the alhes buried in a cave of the mountains neighbour~ng to Tezcuco. ~inatzin was fucceeded on the throne by his fon Techotlalla; but the events of this and the following Chechemecan kings reigns being connected with thofe of the Mexicans, who had at this period (in the fourteenth century of the vulgar era), founded their famous capital, we referve the relation of them to another place, judging it fuflicient at prefent to lay before the reader the feries of all the kings, annexing, as far as is known, the year of the vulgar era in which they began their reigns, that we may afterwards tnake fume mention of the nations which arrived before the Mexicans in that c~untry. Chechemecan Kings. Xo/otl, b~gan to reign in the I 2th century. Nopaltzi1l, in the qth century. 'I'Iotzi1z, in the I 4th century. ~inatzin, in the 14th century. Techot/alla, in the 14th century. Ixtlilxochitl~ ( t), in the 1 406. Be- ·(tJ We do not reckon btlilxachitl nm~ng the- C~cchcmecan kings, bccaufc he was only 'rcatcd governor of Te~cuco. by the Spa~1ards. lt JS tbcrcforc to be doubted, if Cuicuilz· 4<iit;l;ill H I S T 0 R. Y 0 F M E X I C 0 • Between this and the following kings reign, the tyrants Tczozomoc and Maxtla occupied the throne of Acolhuacan. Nezabualcoyotl, Nezahualpil!t', Cacamatzin, Cuicuitzcat%in, C oanacot%in, in the year 1426. in the year 1470. in the year 1 5 I & • in the year I 520. in the year I 520. We cannot fix the year in which the five firil: kings began to reign, becaufe we do not know how long Xolotl and Techotlalla t•eigned; we, however, think it probable, that the Chechemecan monarchy had a beginning in Anahuac about the end of the twelfth century, and lafted 330 years, until about I 521, at which time it ceafed with the kingdom of Mexico. At leail: eleven lawful kings, and two tyrantsoccupied the throne. The Acolhu' · rrived in the country of Anahuac after the beginning of the qth century. With regard to other nations, there is an incredible difference of opinion and confufion in hifiorians refpecting their origin, their number, and the time in which they fettled in Anahuac. The great fiudy which I have made to trace truth has ferved only to increafe my uncertainty, and to make me defpair of ever knowing hereafter what is hitherto unknown. Leaving afide, therefore, all fables, we !hall adhere to what is certain, or at leafl: probable. The Olmecas and the Xicallancas, whether one nation, or two dif- 1inet nations, but confiantly allied and conneCted together, were fo ancient in the country of Anahuac, that many authors account them prior to the Toltecas ( u). Of their origin we know nothing, nor do the ancient piCtures tell us more than that ·they inhabited the country circumjacent to ... the. great mountain Matlalcueje, and that being driven catzin i~ to be numbered among the re kings; as in fpite of, and contrary to the right of Co: ll~acot:un, he wns intruded on the kingdom of Acolhuacan by Monte:...uma, throl1gh the in· tngucs of Cortes, . .{u) Some authors, and among them the celebrated D. Sigucn7.a, have wrote th at the 0 1- J~Jcas paffcd from the Atlantic iOcs, and thnt they alone came ttl Anahuac from the quarter ot' t e Ea~, all the other nations having come from the region of the North ; but we know un fou ndation for thin opinion. ,from 103 BOOK Il. .. , SscT. xrr, The Olme· cas :uld the: Otnmics, |