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should have mazaqiietzal, and this is a royal name well known from 

 the Anales of Chimalpahin, that is, in the territories of Chalco, 

 Tlalmanalco, and Amaquemecan. 



The next figure in column d, square 65, is described by a hieroglyph 

 which is obviously the picture of a snake. The head is above on the 

 left, and is white. The forked tongue protruding from the mouth 

 is plainh' visible. The body is painted yellow. A rattle seems to be 

 drawn at the end of the tail, which is left white like the head. The 

 name might therefore be read Coatl, " snake ". 



Finally, in column e, as already stated, in sections 29, 33, and 44 

 (plates IV and v), three chieftains are drawn, with their name hiero- 

 glyphs and the hieroglyphs of the cities ruled by them. 



The hieroglyph of the city in square 29 shows us a mountain 

 (tepetl) wdiich seems to be formed of streams of water moving in a 

 circle. A mountain of water might be read Atepec. A city is 

 recorded by this name in the Mendoza codex, page 16, among the con- 

 quests of the younger Motecuhzoma, and is expressed there by the 

 drawing of a mountain with a stream of water on it (/, figure 35). 

 In Mexican hieroglyphs of towns, however, a mountain often serves 

 merely to show that reference is made to a place or a jjlace name, that 

 is, to express the syllable co or can; compare, for instance, the hiero- 

 glyphs of the cities of Aztaquemecan, Quauacan, Quauliyocan, Chicon- 

 quiauhco, and Nepopoalco, from the Mendoza codex (c to ^), and 

 those of Tzompanco (A), Tlacopan, Toltitlan, etc., from the Osuna 

 codex. If we take this into consideration, then, since the water in our 

 hieroglyph in square 29 is apparently draAvn moA^ing in a circle, we 

 should perhaps read it Almo^^auacan, " where the water moves in a 

 circle ". This is the name of an ancient village which is mentioned, 

 after Uexotzinco and Xaltepetlapan, with their barrios (calpulli) 

 and the persons belonging to them in the Manuscrit Mexicain number 

 3 of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. There (k) the water flowing 

 in a circle is much more plainly drawn than in our hieroglyph. But 

 since, as we shall see, both the succeeding hieroglyphs also refer to 

 territories adjacent or friendly to Uexotzinco, I think it quite prob- 

 able that the place hieroglyph in square 29, column e, should be read 

 Almo3^auacan. 



The chieftain of the place is designated hieroglyphically by the 

 head of a jaguar. His name must therefore have been Ocelotl, or 

 Tequan, '' beast of prey ". 



The place which is meant to be designated in square 33 (plate iv) 

 is represented by a bush painted bluish green. Unfortunately, this 

 hieroglyph is also open to various readings. The Mexicans expressed 

 the word zacatl, " grass ", by a similar bush (see in the Mendoza 

 codex the place names Zacatlan, Zacatepec, and Zacatollan, shown in 

 a, l>, and c, figure 36) ; but they also painted the same thing when they 



