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vivacitie and good vnderftanding. I willfirft fliewin 

 what forte the Mexicaines counted and divided their 

 yeere, their moneths, their kalender, their computati- 

 - ons, their vvorldes and ages. They divided theyearc 

 * into dghteene moneths , to which they gavetwemie 

 jfoyeCwhercin the threchundred and three fcore days 

 / n ^ are accompliflicd, notcomprehendingin any of thefe 

 moneths the five dayes that remaine, & make the yeare 

 perfect. But they did reckon them apatte, and called 

 them the dayes of nothing:during the which, the peo 

 ple did not any thing^neither went they to their Tern- 

 pies , but occupied themfelves only in vifiting one an 

 other, and fo fpent the time: the iacrificers of the Tem 

 ple did like wife ccafe their facrifices . |Thefc five dayes 

 being paft,they begannethe computation of theyeare, 

 whereof the firft moneth and the beginning was in 

 March, when the leaves begannc to growe grecnc, al- 

 "though they tooke three dayes of the moneth of Fe 

 bruary ; for the firft day of their yeere was, as it were, 

 the fixe and tvventie daY_of February, as appeareth by 

 their kalender , within the which ours is l&ewife com 

 prehended and contained with a very ingenious Arte, 

 which was made by the aritien t Indians thafloiew the 

 firftSpaniardes.il have fcene this Kalenderjand have it 

 ^yetinmycuftody, which well deferveth the fight , to 

 vnderfland the difcourfe and induftiy the Mexicaine 

 Indians had. Every one of thefe cightceae monethes 

 had his propername^nd his proper pidure,the which 

 was commonly taken of the principal! feaft that was 

 made in that moneth , or from thediverfitie of ty mes, 

 which the yeere cauied in that moneth . They had in 

 tjiis Kalender certainc dayes marked and diflinguilhed 

 for their feails. And they accomp ted their weeks by 



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