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thirteenedayes, matkingthe dayes with a Zerdot ci 

 pher, which they multiplied vmothirteenc, and then 

 beganne recount, one, two, &c. They did likewife 

 marke the yeares of thefewheeles, with foure fignes or 

 figures, attributing to every yeare a peculiar figne, 

 whereof one was of a houfe, anotherofaxronny , the 

 third ofa reede,and thefourth of a flint. They painted 

 them in this fort, noting by thofe figures the yeare that 

 didninne, fayingoffoina'nyhoufes, of fo many flints 

 offuchawheele, happenedfuchathing. Forwemuft 

 vndcrftand that their wheele , which was art age, con 

 tained foure weekcs ofyearcs, every wceke containing 

 thirtcene yeares, which in all made fif tie twoo yearcs. 

 In the midft of this wheele they painted a Sunne,from 

 the which went foure heames or lines in crofle to the 

 circumference of the wheele and they made their 

 courfe , even as the circumference was divided into 

 foure cquall partes , every one with his line, having a 

 diftinft colour from the reft,and the foure colors were, 

 greene, blew, red a and yellow : every portion of thefe 

 foure had thirteene feparations which had all their 

 fignes or particular figures, of a houfe^a conny , a reed, 

 or a flint, noting by every fignea yeare, and vppon the 

 ;head of this figne they painted what had happened that 

 yeare. 



And therefore I did fee in the Kalender mentioned 

 the yeare when the Spaniards entered Mexico, marked . 

 by the pidure ofa man clad in red , after our manner, / 

 for fuch was the habite oF the firft Spaniard , whorae I 

 remand Cortes fent, at the end of the two & fifty years, 

 which finiflied the wheele They vfed a pleafant cere 

 mony, which was , the laft night they didde brcakeall 

 their veflclles and ftuffe, and put out their fire, and all 



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