Htiiorie of the Indies, lib.y. 573 



fceking fo to deceive him : whercvpon Motecuma was 

 fo confounded, that for the feare thereof, he returned 

 to his firft imaginations and pra&ifes, to force the chri- 

 v ftians toretyre, by the invocation of coniurcrs and 

 witches. And therefore he aflembled agreaternutnber 

 then before, threatning them , that if they returned 

 without effe&ing what he had given them in charge, 

 not any one fhould efcape, wherevnto they all promi- 

 fed to obey. And for this caufe , all the divells officers 

 went to the way ofchalco, by the which the Spaniards 

 fliould pafle, when mounting to the top of a hill, 7V&- 

 calipaca, one of their principal! gods , appeared vnto 

 them, as comming from the Spaniards campe, in the 

 habite of Ckalca* , who had his pappes bound about 

 eight folde with a cord of reedes, hee came like a 

 manbefidehimfelfe, out of his wits, and drunke with 

 rage & furie. Being come to this troupe of witches and 

 coniurers,he ftaied,and {pake to them in great choller, 

 Why wnttyouhetbtry what doth Mote^tuni -pretend to dot 

 by your meanest He bath advifed himfelfe too late : for it is 

 now determined \ that his Kingdom t and honour fhall be ta- 

 kenfromhim^ with all that hepoffijfith , for pttnifiment of 

 the great tyrannies he hath committed againft hisfubieffs, 

 having governed not like a Lord, but likzatraiteur and ty 

 rant . The inchanters and coniurers hearing thefe 

 words , knew it was their idoll, and humbling them- 

 felves before him , they prefently built him an altar of 

 ftone in the fame place,covering it with flowers which 

 they gathered thereaboutes,buthecontrariwife , ma- 

 king no account of thefc things, beganne againe to 

 . chide them,faying, What come you father to doO yce trai- 

 tours? Returne prefintly and behold Mexico, ifcatyw may 

 vnderft and what foati become thereof. And they fay, that 

 turning towards Mexico to behold it, they did fee it fla- 



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