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Comparative History of 



AMERICAN HISTORY. 



their nation many years ; they were under a 

 sovereign and his chiefs, with entire sub- 

 mission. They lived on grain, fruits, and 

 the spontaneous roots of the earth. They 

 were clothed with the skins of wild beasts, 

 armed with bows and arrows, and wor- 

 shipped the sun. They had been eighteen 

 months on their journey, and arrived at 

 Tula by the same road as the Toltecs, and 

 spoke the Toltec language. Their last 

 king in Amaquemacan, divided his govern- 

 ment between his two sons, Achcauhtli 

 and Xolotl, who quarrelled. The latter 

 emigrated to Anahuac, and took posses- 

 sion of the country. Xolotl was the first 

 king, his son's name was Nopaltzin ; they 

 and the nobles intermarried with the re- 

 mains of the Toltecs who had survived*. 



ASIATIC HISTORY. 



Ounghkhan. He fought many battles, 

 and was taken prisoner more than once, and 

 escaped. In 1169, his wife was captured 

 and sent to Oungh, as an extraordinary 

 beauty, (the grandmother of Kublai and 

 Mango,) but Oungh treated her with re- 

 spect. Oungh was first named Togrul, 

 but that being the name of a bird of ill 

 omen, he changed it. Ounghkhan had 

 more than one quarrel with his brother's 

 and cousins, some of whom he put to 

 death. — All these events are in the vicinity 

 of the rivers Tula and Lena. — Petis de la 

 Croix J Life of Genghis Khan, A. d. 1170. 



In 1178 the seven tribes of Nahuatlaks 

 arrived from Aztlan f, near Amaquemacan. 

 They all spoke the Toltec language. They 

 consisted of Sochemilcks, Chalcks, Ta- 

 panecks, Acolhuans, Tlahuicks, Tlascal- 

 tecs, Teochichimecs, and Aztecs. The 

 Aztecs arrived at Tula in 1196, and at 

 Chapoltepec in 1245 J. 



• Clavigero, vol. i. p. 90, et seq. Humboldt, 

 vol. ii. p. 251. 



f Boturini says, that Aztlan is in Asia. — See 

 Clav. i. 112. 



% Clav. i. 96. Humboldt, ii. 251, 252. These 

 Aztecs, who left Asia 105 years before those other 

 Aztecs, who were with Montezuma's ancestors, 

 are the cause of the confusion in history avowed 

 by Clavigero. These, in 1178, were rude Tar- 

 tars, when compared with the others from 

 China in 1283. ^ or them China, or Cathay, was 

 edbdued by Genghis in 1213. 



The Kalkas are divided into seven tribes j 

 their princes are descended from Genghis 

 Khan, or his brothers; they live chiefly 

 along the rivers Tula, Selingha, Kerlon, 

 and Orkon. They pay blind obedience to 

 the Grand Lama*. In 1174 Ouisonlou- 

 gine, daughter of Oungh, fell in love with 

 Timougin, and rejected Gemouca, Khan of 

 Jagerat ; she married Timougin, who be- 

 came Oungh's prime minister. Gemouca 

 raised a desperate conspiracy to ruin the 

 Mogul Prince, and his father-in-law, Oungh. 

 All the confederate emirs and Khans, hew- 

 ing in pieces a horse, a wild ox, and a dog, 

 said, " Hear, God ! heaven ! O earth ! 

 this oath that we swear against Oungh Khan 

 and Timougin, If one of us spare them, 

 and fail to keep his promise to ruin them, 

 and assist their enemies against them, may 

 he become as these beasts." Oungh Khan's 

 army was attacked, defeated, and his ca- 

 pital taken. The remains of his army re- 

 tired to the mountains. The Grand Khan 

 escaped to the camp of Timougin. — {Petis 

 de la Croix, a.d. 1177.) These were Ke- 

 raits, i, e, Turks, who appear to have been 



• Du Halde, ii. 259. 



