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Show I'!./'. B 0 0 I( v. Events U?tdt•r Montezuma II. the ninth King of Mexico, unti'l the rear J 5 I 9· Particulars of his Life, his Government, and the Magnificence of his Palaces, Gardens, and 11/'oods. '!'he War of 'I'Iajcala, and Jome Account qf 'I'Iahuicole, a 'I'Iafcalan Captain. Death and Eulogium of Nezahualpilli, ]{ing of Acolhuacan, and new Revolutio1u £n that Ki'ngdom. Prejages qf ~he Arrival of the Spa'!iards. AHwitzotl being dead, a~d his fqneral celebr~ted with extraordinary magnificence, they proceed~d to the eleCtion of a new fovereign. No brother: of the preceding kings furvived; on which account, according to the ' law · of the .kingdom, one of the grandfons of the lafi king, who were fori~ of his predece.ifors, had the right of fucceilion ; of the[e there .wer~ many; for of the fons of Axayacatl, Montezuma, Cuitlahuac, Mathi.tzincatl, Pinahuitzin, Cecepacticatzin, were fiillliving, and of tf].ofe of ~ing Tizoc, ImaCl:lacuijatzin, Tepehuatzin, and others, whofe names we do not know. Montezuma, who was called by the name of Xocojot zin, to difiinguHh him from the other . ' king of that name, was elected in preference to all the others ( a). (z) Befides the bt·'a~ery which he , hat! difplayed in feveral battles, in which he held tlie port: of general, . he was likewife a prieil:, and much revered for his gravity; his · circumfpeetion, and religion. He was a man of a taciturn temper, extremely deliberate, not only in words, but alfo in his aB:ions; and whenever h~ fpoke in the royal council, of which he was a member, he was lifiened to with refpect. (a) The outhor .of the Annornrions to Cortes 's Lcttct·s, printed in Mexico iu the yenr r·no fays, th:tt Montezuma II. wns fan of Montezuma I. This is a grofs miOakc, as we know from all the hi ftorians, both Mcx ic~m and SpaniOl, that he was thl! fon of Anyacntl. Sec Tot·qu cmnda, Bernal Dia:~:, the interp re ter of Mendoza's Colle ion, &c. The fir{l Montczttma was called by the Mexicans I-lu c/;1/L' Motuzo llta, and the fccond Motmc· 'Z!JIIIa Xocnjotzilt1 names which arc cq nivalent to the Jmior :1nd jrmio•· qf the Latins. Notice BOOK V. ~ S E C To f, Montezuma, the ninth ~ing of Mcx• 1~0. |