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517. The Provinces of Zapotecas and Coyoatecas belonged to a 

 chief who resided in the village of Teozopotlan. They were at war 

 with the mountaineers of the Provinces of Los Mixes and those of 

 Tututepec. This district is larger than that of the Mixtec provinces, 

 although they are extensive. In Coatlan there is another cave, very 

 broad and long, which they say comes out in Chiapas, over loo leagues 

 away. This Province of the Mixes used to be subject to that of 

 Tehuantepec, which is in i6° N., and 40 leagues from Oaxaca. 



518. There are many other provinces in the district of this Diocese 

 of Oaxaca, as e.g., those of Huajotitlan ; Tecomavaca, near Mixteca ; 

 Yztepexic; Guylapa; Teotitlan, where they speak Mixtec (Masateca) 

 on the Mixtec border, where they flayed those whom they sacrificed 

 and then begged alms through the countryside with the skins of these 

 victims ; they put crowns on their heads before they sacrificed them 

 so that they should be known as dedicated victims. In Usila and 

 Atlatlahuca, where they speak the Chinandega language, Motezuma 

 kept garrisons against the Tuatecas, whom he likewise subdued and 

 treated with the usual cruelties of his religion ; now through the 

 mercy of God they are all Christian and under the protection of our 

 Holy Mother the Church ; they belong to the district of this Diocese 

 of Oaxaca, which is the final outpost to the ESE. of the Circuit 

 Court of Mexico. 



