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Mexicana of the Aubin collection" mention only XochitUn and 

 Amaxtlan (figures 56 and 57). According to the accounts of the 

 Mexican merchants, which are preserved for us in the work of Father 

 Sahagun,'' this expedition to Tehuantepec was an independent enter- 

 prise of the great merchants of Mexico, Tlatelolco, and the other 

 allied cities. They were besieged four years, the story goes, in 



Fig. 5G. Battle scene from Mexican painting, Aubin-Goupil collection. 



Quauhtenanco (" forest stronghold ", " blockhouse? ") by the united 

 contingents of the cities of Anahuaca— Tehuantepec, Izuatlan, Xocht- 

 lan, Amaxtlan, Quatzontlan, Atlan, Omitlan, and Mapachtepec. 



• Histoire de la Nation Mexlcaine depuis le dgp^art d'Aztlan. Manuscripts Piguratlfs 

 des Anciens Mexicains. Copie du codex de 1576. Collection de M. E. Eugene Goupil 

 (ancienne collection, Aubin). Nos. 35, 36 du Catalogue. Paris, 1893, p. (6. 

 " Sahagun, v. 9, chap. 2. 



