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each principal quarter should name other special quarters, 

 where these gods should bo worshipped. So as vnder 

 every one of these foure principall quarters, there were 

 many less comprehended, according to the number of the 

 idolls which their god commanded them to worship, which 

 they called Calpultetco, which is as much as to say, god of 

 the quarters. In this manner, the Citie of Mexico Tenox- 

 tiltan was founded, and grew great. 



CHAP. vin. Of the sedition of those ofTlatelulco, and of t lie 

 first K UKJS the Mexicaines did choose. 



This division being made as afore-said, some oldo men 

 and Antients held opinion, that in the division, they had not 

 respected them as they deserved : for this cause, they and 

 their kinsfolke did mutine, and went to seeko another 

 residence; and as they went thorough the lake, they found 

 a small peece of ground or terrasse, which they call Tloteloli, 

 where they inhabited, calling it Tlatellulco, which signifies 

 place of a terrasse. This was the third division of the Mex- 

 icainos, since they left their Country. That of Mechoacan 

 being the first, and that of Malinalco the second. Those 

 which separated themselves and went to Tlatellulco were 

 famous men, but of bad disposition ; and therefore they 

 practised against the Mexicaines, their neighbours, all the 

 ill neighbourhood they could. They had aKvaies quarrells 

 against them, and to this day continues their hatred and 

 olde leagues. They of Tenoxtiltan, seeing them of Tlatell 

 ulco thus opposite vnto them, and that they multiplied, feared 

 that in time they might surmount them : heerevpon they 

 assembled in counsell, where they thought it good to choose 

 a King, whome they should obey, and strike terror into 

 their enemies, that by this meanes they should bee more 

 vnited and stronger among themselves, and their enemies 



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