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asserts, that these princes, jealous of the anti- 

 quity of their nobility, carried back their origin 

 as far as the first age of our era. They were 

 neither of the Mexican nor Azteck race ; they 

 considered themselves as descendants of the 

 Acolhuan kings, who had governed the country 

 of Anahuac before the arrival of the Aztecks, 

 by whom the princes of Azcapozalco were made 

 tributaries in the eleventh calli of the Mexican 

 era, which corresponds to the year 1425 of the 

 Christian. 



The genealogical painting, which we publish, 

 appears to contain twenty-four generations, in- 

 dicated by as many heads placed one above an- 

 other. We must not be surprised at never 

 seeing more than one son ; since among the 

 poorest Indians, that are tributary, every inhe- 

 ritance descends to the eldest son*. The ge- 

 nealogy begins with a prince named Tixlpit- 

 zin, whom we must not confound with Tecpalt- 

 zin, the chief of the Aztecks, in their first 

 migration from Aztlan ; or with Topiltzin, the 

 last king of the Toltecks : but we shall perhaps 

 wonder at not finding, instead of the name of 

 Tixlpitzin, that of Acolhuatzin, first king of 

 Azcapozalco, of the family of the Citins, who, 

 according to the tradition of the natives, reigned 



• Goruara, Hist, de la Conquista tie Mexico ; 1553, f. 

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