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and to stay in a place called Tula, which signifies a place of _ 

 reedes. There their idoll commanded them to stoppe a 

 great river, that it might cover a great plaine, and by the 

 meanes he taught them they did inviron a little hill called 

 Coatepec, making a great lake, the which they did plant 

 round about with willows, elmes, sapiues, and other trees. 

 There beganno to breede much fish, and many birdes came 

 thither : so as it became a very pleasant place. The situa 

 tion of this place seeming pleasant vnto them, and being 

 wearied with travell, many talked of peopling there, and to 

 passe no farther : wherewith the divell was much displeased, 

 threatning the priests with death, commanding them to re- 

 turne the river to hir course, saying that ho would that 

 night chastise those which had beene disobedient as they 

 had deserved. And as to do ill is proper to the Divell, and 

 that the divine Justice doth often suffer such to be delivered 

 into the hands of such a tormentor, that choose him for 

 their god ; it chanced that about mid-night they heard a 

 great noise in one part of the campr, and in the morning 

 going thither they found those dead that had talked of stay 

 ing there. The manor of their death was, that their 

 stomackes were opened and their hearts pulled out. And 

 by that meanes this good god taught these poore miserable 

 creatures the kindes of sacrifices that pleased him, which 

 was in opening the stomacke to pull out the heart, as they 

 have since practised in their horrible sacrifices. Seeing this 

 punishment, and that the plaine was dried, the lake being 

 emptied, they asked counsell of their god what to doo, who 

 commanded them to passe on, the which they did by little 

 and little, vntill they came to Chapultepec, a league from 

 Mexico, famous for the pleasantnes thereof. They did forti- 

 lic themselves in these mountaines, fearing the nations 

 which inhabited that Country, the which were opposite vnto 

 them, especially for that one named Copil, sonnc to this 

 sorceresse, left in Malinalco, had blamed and spoken ill of 



