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fi apacudi ; kettle, ur ; glass or jar, tatasi ; hen, otocaro ; tgg, tana ; 

 come quick, necumurtu ; come on the run, necu murtiqui ; the moon, 

 Eua ; star, papa ; salt, nacii ; pepper, napa. 



85. In the province where the city of Antioquia is established, the 

 Indians talk Catia, e.g. : light, quira ; water, nira ; give me, be ; give 

 me some water, nira be ; one's own wife, amaju. These notes on the 

 languages mentioned refer to the Indians in those districts speci- 

 fied, belonging to the Secretariat of Peru, where there are countless 

 languages, beyond all power of human understanding to count and 

 describe them ; such is the confusion caused by the enemy of the 

 human race among these peoples, to keep them in bondage to his 

 idolatries ; and although God said through Isaiah : "Because ye have 

 refused or rejected my word, ye shall have everlasting destruction," 

 and although these words have reference to the Jews, who not merely 

 did not receive it, but were aggressors in the death of Christ, for 

 which act although earlier in the written Law they had been the 

 leading nationality in the world and the people chosen of God, 

 through the death of Christ and through not having accepted His 

 Divine Word, there have been fulfilled in them the words spoken 

 by the mouth of Isaiah and consequently they remain the lowest 

 and vilest people in the world, as is evident — nevertheless this does 

 not apply to the Indians descended from the Jews, since they lived 

 in countries so remote and widely separated as the Indies, for which 

 reason they were neither aggressors nor accessories in the death of 

 Christ; and when the light of His Divine Word reached their terri- 

 tories, at once they admitted it and embraced it. And so, in view of 

 what had preceded, we must consider them as one of the noblest 

 peoples in the world, even though they were previously idolaters. 



Chapter XV 



Of Some Words in the Mexican Language and in Others of New 

 Spain and the Spanish Main Falling within the Secretariat of New 

 Spain. 



86. The valiant Mexicans, after having ended the long journey 

 they had undertaken from Nauatlan, on recognizing the indications 

 given them by their false god Vizilipuztli for their settlement, in the 

 year 1202 founded their city in the midst of reeds and cattails; and 

 since they saw themselves intimidated and surrounded on every side 

 by powerful enemies, for their better defense against them and for 

 the expansion of their new city, they resolved to choose a king to 

 govern them in times of peace and defend them in war. So they 



