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willows,elmes,fapines and other trees. There beganne 

 to brcedc much fi(h,and many burdes came thither : fo 

 as it became a very pleaiant place. The fcituation of 

 this place, feeming pkafant vnto them, and being 

 wearied with traveil , many talked of peopling there, 

 and to paffe no farther: wherewith the divcll was much 

 difpleafed,threatning the priefts withdeatb,comman- 

 ding them to returne the river to hir courfe/aying that 

 -.he would that night chaftife thofe which hadbeene 

 difobedient as they had deferved . And as to do ill is 

 proper to the Divell , and that the divine luftice doth 

 often fuffer fuch to be delivered into the hands of fuch 

 a tormentor, that choofe him for their god$ It chanced 

 that about mid-night they heard a great noife in one 

 partofthecampe, and in the morning going thither, 

 they found thofe dead that had talked of flay ing there. 

 Themaner of their death, was, that their ftomackcs 

 were opened,and their hearts pulled out. And by that 

 meanes , this good god taught thefe poore miferablc 

 creatures, the kindes of fkrificcs that pleafed him, 

 which was , in opening the ftomacke, to pull out the 

 heart, as they have fincepra&ifedin their horrible fa- 

 crifices. Seeing this punifhment, end that theplaine 

 was dried, the lake being emptied, they asked counfcll 

 of their god what to doe, who commanded them to 

 paffeon, the which they did by little and little, vntill 

 they came toC^w/rtgga league from Jl/mr^,famous 

 for the pleafantneT thereof. They did fortifie them- 

 felves in thefe mountaines, fcaring-theNations which 

 inhabited that Country, the which were oppofite vrv- 

 to them,efpecially for that one named Copill^ fbnne to 

 this forcereflfejeft in Malinalco^d blamed and fpoken 

 ill of the MexicMWS : for this Copillby the commande- 



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