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Show 2{0 :BOOK V. ' J .. H I S T 0 R Y 0 F M E X I C 0. expofed himfel,f to a rencountcr of this kind with fo adventurous a youth who had alre:1dy, by fecret negociations, drawn over a great part of the Mexican provinces to bis inter:eft. The Mexicans, however, frequently engaged with that army, being fometimes vanquifhed, and at other times victorious. In on~ of thofe battles a relation of the king of Mexico was taken prifoner, who had gone out to the war with an exprefs refolution to make a prifoner of the prince, and to carry him bound to Mexico according to a promife which he had made to Montezuma. Ixtlilxochitl knew of this boaftful promife, and in order t(} be fully revenged, commanded him to be bound and covered with dry · reeds, and burned alive in the fight of the whole army. In the courfe of our hiilory it will appear how much this turbulent prince contributed to the fuccefs of the Spaniards,. who began about this- time to make their appearance on the coaft of the Gulf of Mexico: but befoce we undertake the relation of a war which totally reverfed the order of thole kingdoms, it will be neceiThry to give fame account of the religion, the government, the arts, and manners of the Mexicans. , GENE- .. • ' . G E N E A L 0 6 Y of the M E X I C A N K I N G S. Deduced from the Beginning of the Thirteenth Century. r · Huitzilihuitl, Second K. of Mexico. I II h uicnti=Tlaca pant:t in. about A. D 'I 1 2 20. Huit~ilihuitl, the Ehler, Opo~htli =Ato:...oztl i. I Acnmapitzin, Firfi King of Mexico, I C • I I h11na popbea, ..... I . .L ezozomoC\ h::::Matl a I atz i n1 Third K. of Mexico. his niece. 'It zco:~tl, Fourth K. of Mexico, 'Mat lalchih l(at7.in, mother of Nezahualcojotl, K, of Alcolhuacan. Mottuczomallhuicamina, Fifth King of Mexico. Matlalatxin =Tezozomotlli~ r~·-----·--~~~----~---.T,----------, . ' Tzotzocntzin. Axapcntl, • Ttzoc, Ahttitzotl, 1 Sixth K. of Mc:xico. Seventh K,ofMexico. Eighth K. of Mexico. N. wife of Ncza. Xocotzin, wife huull'illi K. of Acol- of Nezahual-huacan. pilli. lxtlalcuech~uac, MotcucJoma. Xocojotzin, -Miahuaxochitl. Lord of Tollan. Ninth K. of Mexico. C . I I . · utt ahuau.m, Temh K. of Mexico. ' Ahuit1.otl. -~-. Tl:tcnhuepan Johualicabuatzin 1 or, Dot\ Pedro Motczuma. Don Diego Luis lhuitemo,'hin Motc;~,uma. Married in Sp•in with Donna Francifca de la Cueva ; of whom the counu of Motezuma and Tula, the Vif· counu of lluca, &c. al'e de· fcended, · Quauhtemotztn, Elc,·cnth K. of Mexico. Tecuichpot7.in; or, Donna Elizabeta Mo. te7.uma, wife: of King Cuitlahuatz.in, her \mclc; and Kiog ~auhttmot7. in, her coufin; and afterwards fuccrffivcly of tlwee noble Spaniards, of whom the two celebrated houfcs of Cano Mote7.UtliR anJ Andreft Mote:wma are defccndcd. (To f"ce Page a-4-01 Vol. I.) |