486 CONQUEST OF CUITLAVACA. 



LIB. vii. doe, and the king with all the troupe went to the Temple,, 

 ~ to give thanks to their false god,, for the divell hath alwayes 

 beene very desirous hereof, to challenge to himselfe the 

 honor which he deserves not; seeing it is the true God 

 which giveth victories, and maketh them to rule whome he 

 pleaseth. The day following king Izcoatl went vnto the 

 citty of Suchirnilco, causing hirnselfe to be sworne king of 

 the Suchimilcos ; and for their comfort he promised to doe 

 them good. In token whereof hee commaunded them to 

 make a great cawsey stretching from Mexico to Suchimilco, 

 which is fonre leagues, to the end there might bee more 

 commerce and trafficke arnongest them. Which the Suchi 

 milcos performed, and in shorte time the Mexicaine governe- 

 ment seemed so good vnto them, as they helde themselves 

 happy to have changed their king and comrnonweale. 

 Some neighbors, pricked forward by envy or feare to their 

 mines, were not yet made wise by others miseries. 



Cuitlavaca was a citty within the lake, which though the 

 name and dwelling be chaunged, continueth yet. They 

 were active to swimme in the lake, and therefore they 

 thought they might much indomage and annoy the Mexi- 

 cairies by water, which the King vnderstanding, hee resolved 

 to send his army presently to fight against them. But 

 Tlacaellel little esteeming this warre, holding it dishonorable 

 to lead an army against them, made offer to conquer them 

 with the children onely, which he performed in this maner; 

 he went vnto the Temple and drew out of the Convent such 

 children as he thought fittest for this action, from tenne to 

 eighteene yeeres of age, who knew how to guide their 

 boates or canoes, teaching them certaine pollicies. The 

 order they held in this warre was, that he went to Cuitlavaca 

 with his children, where by his pollicy hee pressed the 

 ennemy in such sorte, that hee made them to flie ; and as 

 he followed them, the lord of Cuitlavaca mette him and 

 yeelded v r nto him, himselfe, his citty, and his people, and by 



