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five Mexicans, i. (We may be sur- 

 prised, that the remembrance of so 

 trivial a circumstance should have been 

 preserved for ages.) 



Fig. 3. Tribute of eight hundred tigers skins. 



Fig. 4. Tribute of twenty tigers skins. 



Fig. 5. Tribute of ingots of gold and gold 

 dust. 



Fig. 6. Tribute of four hundred pots of honey 

 drawn from the maguey, agave ame- 

 ricana. 



Fig. 7. Soldiers of the order of priests. 



Fig. 8. One of the chief priests, a, goes in the 

 night, d, to the mountain to do penance ; 

 he carries fire, and a purse filled with 

 perfume of copal ; he is followed by a 

 novice, b. Another priest, c, plays 

 during the night on an instrument of 

 music, called teponatztli. A third 

 priest, f, notes the hour by observation 

 of the stars, e. 



Fig. 9. Tribute of stuffs for clothing. Each 

 bale (a, b, c, d, and ej contains four 

 hundred pieces, indicated by the cipher 

 inscribed on it. 



Fig. 10 and 11. The same. 



Fig. 12. A mother, n, instructing her daughter, 

 o, to weave, q. 



Fig. 13. A goldsmith instructing his son. 



