WAR WITH THE SUCHIMILCOS. 485 



CHAP. xv. Of tJie war re and v ic t o ric w h Icli t Ji c J [ex ic ans had 

 against tlie Suchituilcos. 



The Nation of the Tepanecas being subdewed, the Mexi- LlD 

 caines bad occasion to do the like to the Suchimilcos, who 

 (as it hath beene saide) were the first of the seven caves or 

 lineages that peopled this land. The Mexicans sought not 

 the occasion, although they might presume as conquerors 

 to extend their limits, but the Suchimilcos diddo inoovo 

 them, to their owne mine, as it happens to men of small 

 judgement that have no foresight, who not preventing the 

 the mischefe they imagined, fall into it. The Suchimilcos 

 held opinion that the Mexicans, by reason of their victories 

 past, should attempt to subdue them, and consulted heereon 

 amongst themselves. Some among them thought it good 

 to acknowledge them for superiors, and to applaude their 

 good fortune, but the contrary was allowed, and they went 

 out to give them battel ; which Izcoatl the king of Mexico 

 vnderstanding, he sent his General Tlacaellel against them, 

 with his army ; the battell was fought in the same field 

 that divides their limites, which two armies were equall in 

 men and armes, but very divers in their order and manner 

 of fighting; for that the Suchimilcos charged all together 

 on a heape confusedly, and Tlacaellel divided his men into 

 squadrons with a goodly order, so as he presently brake his 

 enuemies, forcing them to retire into their cittie, into the 

 which they entred, following them to the Temple whither 

 they tied, which they fiered, and forcing them to Hie vuto 

 the mountaines; in the end they brought them to this 

 poyut, that they yeelded with their armes acrosse. The 

 General! Tlacaellel returning in great triumph, the priests 

 went fourth to receive him, with their musicke of flutes, 

 and giving incense. The chiefe Captaiues vsed other cere 

 monies and shews of ioy, as they had bin accustomed to 



