464 FOUNDATION OP MEXICO. 



LlB - vn - ator, and to their great god Vitzlipuztli, who was their 

 father, and had alwaies told them truth. For this reason 

 they called the cittie which they founded there, Tenoxtitlan, 

 which signifies Tunal on a stone, and to this day they carry 

 in their armes, an Eagle upon a Tunal, with a bird in one 

 tallant, and standing with the other vpon the Tunal. The 

 day following, by common consent, they made an hermitage 

 adioyning to the Tunal of the Eagle, that the Arke of their 

 god might rest there, till they might have meanes to build 

 him a sumptuous Temple : and so they made this her 

 mitage of flagges and turfes covered with straw ; then 

 having consulted with their god, they resolved to buy of 

 their neighbours, stone, timber, lime, in exchange of fish, 

 frogges, and yong kids, and for duckes, water-hennes, 

 curlews, and divers other kindes of sea fowles. All which 

 things they did fish and hunt for in this Lake, whereof there 

 is great aboundance. They went with these things to the 

 markets of the Townes and Citties of the Tepanecas, and 

 of them of Tezcuco their neighbours, and with pollicie they 

 gathered together, by little and little, what was neces 

 sary for the building of their Cittie ; so as they built a bet 

 ter Chappell for their idoll of lime and stone, and laboured 

 to fill vp a great part of the lake with rubbish. This done, 

 the idoll spake one night to one of his priests in these 

 tearmes, &quot; Say vnto the Mexicaines, that the Noblemen 

 divide themselves everie one with their kinsfolkes and friends, 

 and that they divide themselves into foure principall quar 

 ters, about the house which you have built for my rest, and 

 let every quarter build in his quarter at his pleasure/ The 

 which was put in execution : and those be the foure prin 

 cipall quarters of Mexico, which are called at this day San 

 Juan, Santa Maria la Redonda, San Pablo, and San Sebas 

 tian. After this, the Mexicaines being thus divided into 

 these foure quarters, their god commanded them to divide 

 amongest them the gods he should name bo them, and that 



