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for his mistress, and who died* in the year 13 

 tochtlu or 1414 ; the falls of snow 4- which took 

 place in 1447 and 1503, and which caused a 

 great mortality among the natives, by destroy- 

 ing the corn that had been sown; the earth- 

 quakes of 1460J, 1462, 1468, 1480, 1495, 1507, 

 1533, and 1542 ; the eclipses of the Sun § in 

 1476, 1496, 1507, 1510, 1531 ; the first human 

 sacrifice 1 1 ; the appearance of two comets in 

 1490^f and 1529 ; the arrival** and the deathft 

 of the first bishop of Mexico, Fray Juan Zu- 

 maraga, in 1532 and 1549 ; the departure of 

 Nunez de Guzman J J for the conquest of Xalis- 

 co ; the death of the celebrated Pedro Alvarado, 

 called by the natives Tonatiuh, the Sun, on ac- 

 count of his flaxen hair §§ ; the baptism of an In- 

 dian by a monk || || ; an epidemic malady, which 

 depopulated ^[^[ Mexico under the viceroy Men- 

 doza, in 1544 and 1545 ; the insurrection and 

 punishment*** of the negroes of Mexico in 1537; 

 a tempest which devastated the forests '\*j^jf ; the 



* Plate 55, fig. 4. f PJate 55, fig. 5 and 6. 



% PI. 55, fig. 7, et PI. 56, fig. 2. 



§ PI. S6, fig. 7. || Seo vol. xiii, p. 217. 



1T PI. 55, fig. 8. ** PJ. 56, fig. 1. 



ft PI. 56, fig. 6. XX PI. 55, fig. 9. 



§§ PI. 56, fig. 4. {HI Idem, idem. 



HIT PI. 56, fig. 5. *** PI. 56, fig. 2. 



ftt PI -56, fig. 5. 



