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Show H I S T 0 R Y 0 F M E X I C 0. BOOK VI. form, and all the lord~ who ~elided at court, and alfo thofc who were but a little diil:ant from it were informed of the event, in order that they might be pr fent nt the funeral. In the mean time they laid the royal corpfe upon beautiful curiouOy wrought mats, whi h was attend •d and watched by his domcfiics. Upon the fomth or fifth day a[tc.;r, when the lord,c; were arrived, who brought with them rich drcflcs, beautiful feathers, and flaves to be prefcnted, to add to the pomp of the funeral, they clothed the corpfc in fifteen, or more, very fine habits of cotton of various colours, ornamented it with gold, fllver, and gems, hung an emerald at the under lip, which was to icrve in plac of a heart, covered the i~lce with a mafk, and over the habits were placed the enfigns of that god, in whofc temple or area the an1es were to be buried. They cut off fome of the hair, which, together witl! fome more which had been cut off in the infancy of the king, they pr ferved in a little box, in order to perpetuate, as they faid, the memory of the deceafed. Upon the box they laid an image of the deceafed,. made of wood, or of ftone. Then they kill ed the flave who was his chapbin, who had had the care of his oratory, and all that belonged to the private worlhip of his gods, in order that he might ferve him in the fcnne office in the other world. · T he funeral proceffion came next, accompanied by all the relations of the deceafed, the whole of the nobility, and the wives of the late king, who tefi:ified their farrow by tears and other demonftrations o£ grief. The nobles carried a great ftandard of paper, and the royal arms and enfigns. The priefts continued finging, but without any mufical inil:rumcnt. Upon their arrival at the lower area of the temple, the high-prieil:, together with their fervants, came out to meet the royal orpfe, which, without delay, they placed upon the funeral pile,, w hi h was prepared there for that purpofe of odoriferous relinous woods,. together with a large quantity of copal, and other aromatic fuhfiances •. While the royal corpfe, and all its habits, the arms and enfigns were· burningl they facrificed at the bottom of the ftairs of the temple a great number of ilaves of thofe which belonged to the deceafed, and alfo of thofe which had been prefented by the lords. Along with the flaves, they likc:wi'ie facrificed fome of the irregularly formed men, whom the king had collected in his. palaces for his entertainment, m order that H I S T 0 R Y 0 F M E X I C 0. that they migl1t give him the tune pleafure in the other world; and for the i;unc rcnfon they ufed alfo to facrifice fume of his wives (12). The numb •r of the victims was proportioned to the grandeur of the fune-ral, and amountcJ iometimes, as [event! hill:orians affirm, to two hundred. Amonr.r the other fac.nfices the techi hi was not omitted ; they were firmly ~)erfuaded, that without fu<:h a guide it would be impoffil>le to. get through fome dangerous ways which led to the other world: The day following the a.n1cs were gathered, and the teeth w1Hch remained entire; they fought carefully for the emerald which had been hung to the under lip. and the whole were pLlt i~1to the b~x with the· hair, and they clepofited the box in the place deftmed for hss fepul hre. The four following days they made oblations of eatables over the fepnlchre; on the fifth, they facrificed fome _{lav~s , and alfo fome others on the twenti<.:th, fortieth, fixticth, and etgh tteth day after. From that time fo rward, they facrificcd no more human victims; but every year they celebr~ted the day of th ~: funeral with ~1crific~s of rab~its , buttcrfli s, quail s, and other birds, and with ~blatLons of. bread, wtne, copal flowers, and certain little reeds filled w1th aromattc fubil:an ces,, which they called acc:jet!. This annivcrfary was heiJ for fo.u r years. 'The bodies of the dead were in general burned; they buned the bodies entire of thofe only who IJ-1.d been drowned, or had died of dropfy,. and [ome other difeafes ; but what was the rcafon of thefe exceptions we know not. BOOK VI, '----v- Th re was no fixed place for burials. Many ordered their allies to s ~>cT. xr.. .. be buried near to fome temple or altar, fome in the fields, and others ~~~~~!~.· fq•ulJ. in thofc facrcd phlces of the mountains where facrifices ufcd to be made. The a!hes of the kings and lords, '"'ere, for the mofl: part, de-pofitcd in the towers of the templ es (o), efpccially in thofc of the A 1 r (1'1 C"J) o ) r!1at nt the funernln of lords, all tho tn l! tnbcrs of his fa- (•1) col a rap r 1. v. " · n . · • . • . • · . . · . b " h. mil \\CI'C 1:rcri fi ccd. But thi ·J is grofly fa\lc and 111 rtft:!f rucr~dt lrl c; fo~ h.td th rs 1.:711 t ~.; caf{ the noble> 0 ;· Mc,dco w ulu have loon b ·en cxtci·minntcd . Thc_rc rs no record Ill. tl:c Iii 'or , of Mc:>i •0 , tlr ar at the dcatlr of rhc kin of Mcx ico, any ot IllS. brothcr·s were i:tcn-r. l ) 1 · 1 . ltl ' r1t ·1111 .1tc How io it JlOfii ', Je th ey could' pr:H'.Irfc ftrlh cnrclry when IICCl HG t liS Hll 10r \\' Oll I • • . • the 1;cw kin P.; was n!'u.dly clc: icd from nmung tlrc hr~! hers ~f the d c.:catc~. , .· , ( ) L' 1. · · 1· ·,. l! 'ilory of the Conqucfl: of l\kx1co, af111·ms, that rhc nOtes of the krnga o ,,u rs, 111 11a 1 1. 1 f 1 qucror were dcJ)() il tctl in lrapoltcpoc; but this is fulfc, and cotltr:\tll s t H: .rcpo~·t 0 f t 1 1c con . . · Cortes, whofc L><tn· cgyric he wrote, o f }.' crna1 D'w s, ru1 d otl1 c r cy. e·w, ltndlcs o t rc• contrary. greater |