500 The ^(aturallandMoratt 



leifurely travell,- the which they might have done in 3 

 moneth.By this meanes they entred the land ofMexi- 

 to, hi the yeare nine hundred and two, after our com 

 putation. 



Hm tbefix Linages of Navatlacas peopled the land 

 ^Mexico. C H A P. jj, 



THefefeaven Linages I have fpoken of, came not 

 forth all together : the firft were the Suclnmilcos^ 

 which fignifie a Nation of the feedcs of flowers. Thofe 

 peopled the bankes of the great lake ofMex/co towards 

 the South , aud did build a cittie of their name , and 

 many villages. ILong time after came they of thefe* 

 cond linage called Chalcas , which fignifies people of 

 mouth es^vhoalfo built a cittie of their name, dividing 

 their limmits and territories with the Suckbmk&:\E\\e 

 third were the Tcpanccans, w r hich fignifies people of 

 thebridge : they didinhabite vpon the banke of the 

 lake towards the Weft, and they increafcd fb , as they 

 called the chiefe and Metropolitane of their Province, 

 4&c*p&%altt ; which is to fay, an Ants neft , and they 

 continued long time mighty. After them came thole 

 that peopled Tefiuco, which be thofc ofcMtia, which 

 is to lay, a crooked people : for that in their Countrcy 

 there was a mountaine much bending. And in this 

 fort this lake was invironcd with theft foure Nations, 

 thefe inhabiting on theEaft, and theT<?/^#<r<r^on the 

 , North. Thefe of Ttfittc*, werg held for great Gourd- 

 ers,for their tongue and pronoun nation is very fweetc 

 and pleafant.tr hen arrived theTM///V/i^Avhich fi^ni* 

 fies men of tne Sierre or mountaine. Thofe were the 

 moft rudeand grofle of all the reft ? who finding all the 



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