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post again ; but, in pursuance of his efforts to regulate the relations 

 between the natives and the Spaniards, he found it advisable again to 

 give a chief to the Indian population of the capital. In the year 15)^8 

 he appointed to the office Uanitzin, who, liowever, was not proclaimed 

 king (tlahtohuani). nor could he be quauhtlahtouani, "war chief", 

 on account of his rank ; therefore he was installed in office under the 

 Spanish title of " gobernador ". He died as early as 1541. One of 

 his sons, Don Cristoval de Guzman Cecetzin, or Cecepaticatzin, was 

 afterward, in 1559, the third gobernador of Mexico. 



Finally, regarding Oquiztli, the fourth person, set down in our 

 manuscript underneath Quauhtemoc, we know from Tezozomoc's 

 Cronica that he was installed as king at Azcapotzalco at the same 

 time as Uanitzin at Ecatepec. Tezozomoc also designates him as a 

 nephew of Motecuhzoma; but I have no positive information as 

 to who his parents were. Azcapotzalco had become subject to the 

 Mexicans since 1429, when the old rulers Avere driven out and the 

 land was divided. ° Oquiztli also seems to have taken no conspicuous 

 part in the fighting during the siege. He was forced, with the other 

 noble Mexicans, to accompany Cortes on his expedition into tlie 

 forest regions of Chiapas and Honduras, and died there soon aftei- 

 the execution of Quauhtemoc, in the year 1542.'' 



So much concerning these four. Of the other persons set down 

 in our manuscript from the ninth division upward, only the one 

 entered in division 16 (counting from the lower path) is bettei- 

 known. This, as the explanatory note tells us, is Don Diego de San 

 Francisco Teuetzquititzin, the son of Tezcatlpo^^ocatzin, who again 

 was a son of Tizocicatzin, seventh king of Mexico, and lived sub- 

 ject to Spanish rule in Calpul Teopan, the barrio of San Pablo of 

 Tenochtitlan. He was appointed gobernador of Mexico after Uani- 

 tzin's death, in 1541, and died there in the year 1554.^ The name 

 Teuetzquiti means " the jester ", " he who makes others laugh ". The 

 hiei'oglyph in our manuscript seems intended to represent a kind 

 of comic mask. Elsewhere in the Sahagun manuscript of the Acade- 

 mia de la Historia, he is represented by an open mouth, /^ and 

 a namesake of his, Tetlaueuetzquititzin, who belonged to the royal 

 family of Tetzcoco, and was gobernador of Tetzcoco at about the 

 same time, is represented by an open mouth with the little tongue (/»•, 

 figure 37), indicative of speech, before it. The head, behind which 

 the hieroglyph in our manuscript is i^lacecl, is drawn with the royal 

 headband of turquoise mosiac, as in the cases of Motecuhzoma, 

 Quauhtemoc, Uanitzin, and Oquiztzin. Like them, Teuetzquitizin 

 belonged to the royal family of Mexico. 



" Chlmalpahin, p. 99. 



>> Cbimalpahin, p. 207. 



•^ Cbimalpahin, pp. 241, 250 ; Sahagun manuscript, Academia de la Illstoria. 



