1883.] 639 [Phillips. 
thereby meaning to convey that when they fled to Mexico they were 
dressed in that manner, and that they subsisted on what they could obtain 
by fishing, and that they had to undergo great hardships ; and they paint 
no more valiant warriors. And these were forty years without a lord. 
The first lord of the Mexicans was named Acamapichil, who lived twenty 
years. In this time it happened that two women misbehaved, the one 
with the other, and they stoned them to death close to Hsceapucalco, which 
is called Teculuapa ; before this judicial act was performed, the lord of 
Hscapucalco reported it to him of Guatlinchan, and the two reported it to 
the lord of Mexico, and all of them ordered it to be done, And likewise 
came to pass that Xilot Iztac, daughter of Anil Mixtlt, was married to the 
brother of the lord of Ascapugalco (sic), and when he died his brother, the 
lord of Ascapucaleo, took her for his wife ; and she went off to Suchimilco, 
and did wickedness with Ananacalt, and when it became known to the 
three lords, they took them and stoned them to death. They say it was 
the custom that a brother’s widow could not lawfully remarry except 
with a surviving brother, and if she married any one else she forfeited her 
lands and all her possessions. The first lord of Ascapugalco was named 
Tecocomucli. 
At this very same time it came to pass that two lads stole the grains of 
maize that had been sowed in the earth, and they were taken and sold 
for slaves, and the price paid for each one was five mantas. 
And in these days it happened that a woman stole certain maize from a 
granary, and a man saw her and told her that if she would let him lie 
with her he would not inform on her, and she did so; but afterwards the 
man accused her of the deed, and the woman confessed all that had taken 
place, whereupon she was acquitted, and the man was given as a slave 
to the owner of the maize. 
At this time it happened that two lads robbed five ears of maize before 
it had ripened, and they were ordered to be hung, as it was a greater 
crime to take them before they were mature than afterwards. And when 
the first lord of Mexico was dead, the Mexicans remained three years 
without a ruler, after which they chose Vi¢iliwtli, son of their first lord, 
who lived twenty-five years. In his time it came to pass that a man of 
Tezcuco kept a watch over his wife, and three days after her confinement 
he caught her with the sacristan of the temples, and he seized them and 
the three lords condemned them to death. And it also happened that a 
man found his wife with another man, slew the man and not the woman, 
and she came back to live with her husband, for which reason both she 
and he were put to death. 
When the second lord died the Mexicans chose Chimalpupuca fot their 
ruler, who lived eleven years. In the days of this third lord it happened 
in Chimaloacan that a woman saw a drunken man and went to him and 
lay with him, and for this they stoned the woman, but inflicted no pun- 
ishment whatever upon the man. 
And at this time it happened that a man of Tenayuca had a granary of 
PROC. AMER. PHILOS. soc. xx1. 116. 4c. PRINTED AUGUST 19, 1884. 
