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reached Hueiculhuacan, called to-day Culiacan, about 24 1^ South latitude. Here 
they remained three years. From this town they changed their course to the 
east; reaching Chicomozloe, supposed to be a town about twenty miles from 
Zacatecas, where yet is seen a large building erected by the Mexicans. 
From Zacatecas, traveling souths they went to Colima, then turning east 
from Zacatula they^lived in the mountains near Tuluca, thence they directed 
their journey north, reaching in 11 96 the noted town of Tula. 
They remained nine years in Tula, and then eleven more in other neighbor- 
ing localities, reaching Zampanco in 12 16, fifty-six years from their departure 
from Aztlan, remaining seven years in Zampanco; from Zampanco they went to 
Tizajocan, then to Tepeyac, then to near the shores of Lake Tezcuco near where 
afterwards was built the city of Mexico. Here they lived twenty years. Being 
much vexed here they moved to Chapultepec about the year 1243. 
Here being attacked and conquered by the nation of Colhuacan, they were 
all enslaved about the year 1314. After aiding the Colhuans or people of Colhua- 
can to overcome the Joqumilcos the Colhuans, indignant at the human sacri- 
fices of the Aztecs, for which prisoners of war were used, ordered them out of 
the country. The Aztecs pleased, traveling northwards, established themselves 
at Mexicaltzinco, a place between the two lakes. Here, the locality not suiting 
them, they removed farther from the Colhuans and passed to Iztalco, in close 
proximity to their future city of Mexico. Here they lived two years, finally 
settling on the spot where, seeing an eagle sitting or a nopal or cactus growing 
on a rock, they called the place Tenochtitlan, calling afterwards the city erected 
there Mexico, which was begun by human sacrifices in the year 1325, one hun- 
dred and sixty-five years from their departure from Aztlan. This then is the 
condensed story of their wondrous pilgrimage, which Betemcourt says was 2,700 
miles in length. 
How then can we, by any possible turn, bring our Aztecs, as some have 
tried, into Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico, yes, even to the Mississippi 
River, in the person of the extinct Natchez, or even have transmuted the Mound- 
builders of the Ohio Valley and the Upper Mississippi into the Aztecs, who, 
driven out, went southwest into New Biscay, or Aztlan, thence to the lakes of 
Tezcuco, migrations of pure fancy; hypotheses founded on transcendental history. 
The Pueblos of Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado worship the Sun and 
keep a sacred fire in an estufa. They have a tradition obtained from Spanish 
intercourse of a fabulous person called Montezuma. The serpent was also a 
sacred emblem, and we believe the Zunians have traces of former sacrifices. All 
are industrious, all have a quasi semi-civilization, and all know how to cultivate 
the soil and raise stock. On these points of similarity is the whole fabric built 
that makes them Aztecs by name, not by any direct act. 
