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crowne, whether he led the flower of his people, well 

 appointed. There hce warred with fuch valour and 

 dexteritie, that in the end he fubdued all the province, 

 and punifhed the rebells/evercly, returning with a 

 great number of captives for the facrifices , and niany 

 other fpoilcs. All the citties made him folemnc recep 

 tions at his returne, and the Lords thereof gave him 

 water to wafli > performing the offices of fervants, a 

 thing not vfedby any of his prcdeceflbrs* Such was 

 the feareand refpeft they bare him. In Mexico y they 

 made the feafts of his coronation with great preparati 

 ons of dances,comedies,banquets,lights, and other in 

 tentions for many daies* And there came Ib greata 

 wealth of tributes from all his countries, that (hangers 

 ynknowne came to Mexico, and their very enemies re- 

 (brted in great numbers difguifed to fee thefe feafts, as 

 thofeofT/4/?rf/K*,and UecbovACAn : the which Motecu- 

 m* having difcovcredj he commanded they fliould be 

 lodged and gently intreated, and honoured as his own 

 perfon. Hcalfbmade them goodly galleries like vn to 

 his owne , where they might fee and behold the feafts. 

 So they en trcd by night to thofc feafts,as the king him- 

 felfe , making their Iportes and maskcs. And for that I 

 have made mention of thefe provinces, it {hall not be 

 from thepurpofc to vnderftand,that thoinhabitants of 

 Mtcbovac4?t,Tlafe4ll4nd Tapeau, would never yeelde 

 to the Mcxicans,but did al waies fight valiantly againft 

 them; yea, fomctimesthe Mec&tvtcaits did vanquifti 

 the Mexicans , as alfo thofe of T*pe4C4 did . In which 

 place, the Marquife Don Terr And Cortes, after that he 

 and the Spaniards wert expelled Mcxict, pretended to 

 build their firft cittie, the which he called (as I well re- 

 dtlt Frwtim:]$iit this peopling con* 



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