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count of his valor. This Qeacalt lived until the second year of the ninth 
thirteen, being lord of Zula, and four years before that time he built a very 
large temple in Zula, and when he had done it there came to bim Tezcatli- 
puca, who told him, that towards Honduras, in a place which is now 
called Tlapalia, there was a house built for him, and that there he should 
betake himself and breathe his last, for that he must go away from Tula,” 
in which town Geacalt was reverenced as a god; to what Zezcathipucu 
said to him, he replied that the heavens and the stars had told him that 
it-was his-fate1o leave.there within four years. .And so when these four 
years were completed, he departed and took with him all the Afaceguales of 
Tula, and left them at the city of Chulula, whence are descended all its 
inhabitants, and others he left in the province of Ouzcatan, whence de- 
scends the present popwiation of that place, and in the very same manner 
he left behind him in Gempoal others who settled there, and he proceeded 
on his journey till he reached Tlapala (sic), and on the very day in which 
he arrived there he fell ill, and on the day following he died. Then Tula 
remained depopulated, and without a lord nine years. 
CHAPTER 9TH. 
Of the beginning and coming of the Mexicans to this New Spain. 
It is said that after the completion of ten thirteens after the deluge, which 
are 130 years, the Mexicans were settled in a community named Azcla to 
the west of the New Spain slightly trending toward the North, which was 
very much populated, and in whose centre stood a mountain whence issued 
a fountain which became a river, like Chapultepeque™® is in Mexico, and on 
the other side of this river was another settlement, and a very large one, 
named Ouluacan ;*' and since their computation begins with the first year 
of their emigration, so from now on for the future we shall reckon time 
starting from the year in which this Mexican agreed to sally out to find 
new lands that they might conquer, and for that reason they chose 
three war chiefs or captains, one they named Xinei, another Tee- 
pagi, and the third Coantlque, and with these three started off many 
Mexicans (the paintings do not set out their number), and they carried 
with them the figure and manner of constructing their temples, so as to be 
able to erect them to Vehilobi wherever he should come. So they took 
their adieu of the temple they had in Agcla,* and began their journey, 
for which reason the painting representing their expedition, makes its be- 
ginning with the temple. 
CHAPTER 10TH. 
How they Departed, the People of Culuacan, and what Peoples went with 
them, and how they were named. 
As has been already narrated on the eastern side of the river they represent 
the City of Culuacan, a very large city with many populous places around 
it filled’ with people, on the account of which the inhabitants determined 
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