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for which they held him in reverence. What has been stated above is 

 related by divers historians. 



Chapter XII 



Of the Origin and Filiation of the Kings and Lords Who Lived 

 in New Spain. 



398. Now that we have given some information about what the 

 historians tell us regarding where the Mexicans came from, accord- 

 ing to their annalists' reckoning (as is stated by Gomara) they 

 reached New Spain in A.D. 721. The first lord whom they name 

 is Topeuch, who lived to be over 100 years old. At his death they 

 met in Tulan and chose as their lord his son Topil, then 22 years old. 

 From A.D. 821 he ruled 50 years; and since he left no sons, they 

 remained without king or lord for no years after his death. In the 

 year 981 they met in Tulan and chose two lords; one was Vemac and 

 the other Nauhiocin, who lived with his subjects near the lake ; he 

 reigned 60 years, until 991 ; at his death he was succeeded by Quauh- 

 texpetatli, who was the fifth king and lord of that country. He was 

 followed by Vecin ; the seventh was Noualcati, and the eighth 

 Achitomel. The ninth was Quauhtonal, and in the tenth year of his 

 reign the Mexicans (those of the seventh great line) came in, arriv- 

 ing at Chapultepec. 



399. The tenth king or lord was Mazacin, who was succeeded by 

 Queza, the eleventh ; the twelfth was Chalchiutona, the thirteenth 

 Ouauhtlix, and the fourteenth lohuallatonac. The fifteenth king was 

 Ciutetl, who established the Mexicans in Mexico City in the year 

 1202. Xiuiltemoc was the sixteenth king, being followed by Cuxcux, 

 who was the seventeenth. He was succeeded by the eighteenth king 

 and lord, Acamapixtli, and in the sixth year of his reign he was 

 killed by a Mexican prince named Achitometl, who likewise killed 

 his six sons, heirs to the State; he thus became the nineteenth king, 

 and exalted himself and tyrannized over the realm. On this occasion 

 lUancucitl escaped with Acamapixtli, a son of the murdered man, 

 and brought him up hidden in the woods for 12 years, the period 

 during which Achitometl was reigning despotically in Culhuacan, 

 which was decimated by the murders and tyrannical acts of Achi- 

 tometl. Apprehensive because of the murders he had committed and 

 the cruelties he had perpetrated, he fled to avoid being assassinated ; 

 and thereupon, since there was no king, the local lords began to rule 

 in Atzcapotzalco, Cuauhnauac, Chalco, Cuauhtitlan, and Huejotzingo. 



