America and Tartary. 



AMERICAN HISTORY. 



After the beginning of the thirteenth 

 century, three princes arrived with a great 

 army ol" Acolhuans, natives of Teoacolhua- 

 can, not very distant from Amaquemacau. 

 They were named Acolhuatzin, Chicon- 

 quauhtli, and Tzontecomatl, of the most 

 noble house of Citin : they were brothers 

 and sons of a great lord, and were the most 

 civilized of any since theToltecs. The King 

 of the Chechemecas, who was at Tescuco, 

 was alarmed at so great a multitude of 

 strangers : but they assured him that they 

 came from a country a little distance only 

 from his own native land, and had heard of 

 his humanity, for which reason they de- 

 sired to place themselves under his protec- 

 tion and dependence. The king felt his 

 vanity flattered by their courtly demeanour 

 and humility, and he gave his two daugh- 

 ters to the two eldest. The marriage re- 

 joicings lasted sixty days, in which were 

 combats with wild beasts, wrestling, run- 

 ning, and such exercises. From this union 

 the kingdom of Acolhuacan was founded, 

 and many of the Chechemacas took to the 

 woods and mountains to resume their old 

 habits of hunting, where they mixed with 

 the barbarous Otomies *, 



In 1317 the Aztecs, who were numerous, 

 and slaves to the petty king of Colhuacan, 

 a town near the lake, (frequently con- 

 founded with Acolhuacan,) instituted the 

 first human sacrifice, which awed and dis- 

 gusted the king, and he discharged his 

 Aztec slaves f. 



The author of ' La Galerie Agreable du 



• Clavigero, b. ii. p. 93—95. 



t Clav. 1. 118. Humboldt, i. 216. 



ASIATIC HISTORY. 



masters of Siberia from the sixth century 

 till the rise of the Mongols under Genghis. 



After the most bloody battle recorded 

 in history, the Grand Khan, Oungh, re- 

 mounted his throne in 1179. In 1192 Ti- 

 mougin's enemies inspiring Oungh with 

 distrust, he retires. The Moguls refuse to 

 pay tribute. They confederate, and pre- 

 sent to Timougin, the Topouz, a short 

 staff, or truncheon of authority, in 1201*. 

 The Moguls march, and the two great 

 armies meet on a plain, called Tangut. 

 The neighing of the horses, and the cries 

 of the soldiers of these mighty hosts, 

 " obliged Heaven to shut its ear." Oungh 

 Khan had forty thousand killed, and the 

 best of the survivors went over to Timou- 

 gin. The Grand Khan fled to the Khau 

 of the Naimans, where he was beheaded. 

 His son Sancoun went to Thibet, then to 

 Cashgar ; he returned to Thibet, and was 

 put to death as a spy. 



Timougin took possession of all the 

 Grand Khan's dominions, treasures, and 

 palaces. The assembly of Khans agreed 

 to elect Timougin their emperor. He was 

 led by seven lords to a throne placed upon 

 a black felt carpet, proclaimed Grand Khaa 

 of all the Mogul nations, and they all 

 bowed the knee nine times. Timougin 

 promised to make their names known to 

 all the earth, and in 1205 he took the title 

 of Genghis, (the Greatest.)— Pe/j« de la 

 Croix, chaps, iv. and v. 



Genghis died in 1226. Mango, his grand- 

 son, died in 1257, and was succeeded by 

 his brother Kublai, who resided at Pekin, 

 (and died in 1294, aged 80.) In the year 

 1280 the Mogul empire comprised the 

 continent of Asia, except Hindostan and 

 Arabia. The frontier was the Don, and all 



• This is probably the same as that ia tha 

 hand of each of the Incas, in their portrait* j 

 Vega names it a partisan. 



