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Of the MexicAines departure ^fthttr tourney And 

 filing the Province 0/Mechovacan. 

 CHAP. 4. 



THree hundred and two yeares after theforpier 

 two linages had left their Country, to inhabite 

 new Sfaintjhe Country being now well peopled, and 

 reduced to fomeformc of government. Thofeofthe 

 feaventh cave or line arrived , yvhichis the Mcxicnine 

 Nation , the which like vnto the reft, left the Province 

 of -4^/4, and TeucttlhtMcan, a pollitike, courtlikc, and 

 warlike Nation. They did vvorfliip the idoll Fit^(6ft^ 

 // , whereof ample mention hath beene made, and the 

 divcll that was in this idoll fpake , and governed this 

 Nation eafily. This idoll commanded them to leave 

 their Country , promifing to make them Princes and 

 Lords over all the Provinces which the other fix Nati 

 ons didpoflefle* thathee would give them a land a- 

 bounding with gold, filver, pretious ftones, feathers, 

 and rich mantells : whcrevpon they went forth, car- 

 rying their idoll with them in a coffer of i cedes, fuppor- 

 tedby fourc of their principal! priefts 5 with whom he 

 di^talke and reveale vnto them in fecret, thefucccfle 

 of their way and voyage,advifing them of what (hould 

 happen.He likevvife gave them lawes, and taught them 

 the ctiftomes, ceremonies , and facrifices they fliould 

 obferve. They did not advance nor moove without 

 commandement from this idoll. He gave thenvnorice 

 when to march, and when to ftay in any place, wherc- 

 kuhcy wholy obeyed him. Thefirft thing they did 

 whcrefbever they came, was to build a houfe.or taber 

 nacle for their falfe god , which they ict alwaies in the 



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