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voyage to their promised land, where we observe the resem- LlB - ru - 

 blance of many other things, as the histories of the Mexi- 

 caines do report, and the holy scriptures testifie of the 

 Israelites. And without doubt it is a true thing, that the 

 Divell, the prince of pride, hath laboured by the supersti 

 tions of this Nation, to counterfaite and imitate that which 

 the most high God did with this Nation : for, as is said be 

 fore, Satan hath a strange desire to compare and make 

 himselfe equal with God: so as this mortall enemy hath 

 pretended falsely to vsurpe what communication and fami- 

 liaritie ho hath pleased with men. Was there ever divell 

 found so familiarly conversant with men as this divell Vitzi- 

 lipuztli. We may wel iudgo what he was, for that there 

 was never seeno nor heard speake of customes more super 

 stitious, nor sacrifices more cruel and inhumane, than those 

 which he taught them. To conclude, they were invented 

 by the enemy of mankindo. The chiefe and Captaine 

 whome they followed was called Mexi, whence came the 

 name of Mexico, and of the Mexicaine Nation. This people 

 marching thus at leisure, as the other six Nations had done, 

 peopling and tilling the land in divers partes, whereof there 

 is yet some shewes and ruines : and after they had endured 

 many travails and dangers, in the end they came to the 

 Province of Mechoacan, which is as much to say, a laud 

 of fish, for there is great abundance in goodly great lakes, 

 where, contenting themselves with the situation and tem 

 perature of the ground, they resolved to stay there. Yet, 

 having consulted with their idoll vpou this point, and find 

 ing him vnwilling, they demanded license to leave some of 

 their men to people so good a land, the which he granted, 

 teaching them the meanes how to do it, which was, that 

 when the men and women should be entred into a goodly 

 lake called Pazcuaro to bathe themselves, those \vhich re 

 mained on land should steale away ail their clothes, and 

 then secretly raise their cainpe and depart without any 



