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liunting, piercing the rockie and rough countries, discover- Ll &quot; VI 

 ing a new world, the inhabitants whereof were almost like 

 savage beasts, without coverings or houses, without tilled 

 landes, without cattell, without King, Law, God, or Reason. 

 Since others, seeking better and new lands, inhabited this 

 fertile Countrey, planting pollitike order and a kinde of 

 common-weale, although it were very barbarous. After the 

 same men, or other Nations, that had more understanding 

 then the rest, laboured to subdue and oppresse the lesse 

 mighty, establishing Realinos and great Empires. So it 

 happened in Mexico, at Peru, and in some partes where 

 they finde Citties and Coramon-weales planted among these 

 Barbarians. That which confirmes me in my opinion 

 (whereof I have amply discoursed in the first booke), that 

 the lirst inhabitants of the West Indies came by land, and 

 so by consequence that the first continent of the Indies , 

 ioynes with that of Asia, Europe, and Affrike, and the new 

 world with the old, although they have not yet discovered 

 any countrey that toucheth and ioynes with the other world; 

 or if there be any sea betwixt the two, it is so narrow that 

 wilde beasts may easily swim over, and men in small boates. 

 But leaving this Philosophic, let vs rcturne to our history. 



CHAP. iv. Oj Ilic Mcxicdincs departure, off/tcir lonrncy nnd 

 peopling flt&amp;gt;. YY&amp;lt;&amp;gt;r///r&amp;lt; of Mcchoacan. 



Throe hundred and two ycares after, the former two 

 lineages had left their Country to inhabite New Spaine, the 

 Country being now well peopled and reduced to some forme 

 of government. Those of the seventh cave or line arrived, 

 which is the Mexicaine Nation, the which, like vnto the rest, 

 left the Province of Axtlan and Teuculhuacan, a pollitike, 

 courtlike, and warlike Nation. They did worship the Idull , 

 Vit/ilipu/tli, whereof ample mention liath beene made, and 

 the divell that was in this idoll spake, and governed this 



