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person asked me whether I came from Tlapallan. I did 

 not then understand the meaning of this question ; but 

 I afterward knew, that the Indians took us for the 

 descendants of Quetzalcohuatl" (Torq. torn. 2, p. 53). 

 Tt is no doubt interesting to treasure up the most mi- 

 nute circumstances relative to the life of this mysterious 

 personage, who, belonging to the heroic times, was 

 probably anterior to the Toltecks. 



Pestilence and destruction of the Toltecks in 1051. 

 They push their migrations farther to the south. Two 

 children of the last king, and some Tolteck families, 

 remain in the country of Anahuac. 



The Chichimecks, issuing from their country Ama- 

 quemecan, arrive in Mexico in 1170. 



Migration of the Nahuatlacks (Anahuatlacks) in 

 1178. This nation contained the seven tribes of 

 Sochimilcks, Chalcks, Tepanecks, Acolhuans, Tla- 

 huicks, Tlascaltecks, or Teochichimecks, and Aztecks 

 or Mexicans, who, as well as the Chichimecks, all 

 spoke the Tolteck language (Clav., torn. 1, p. 151, 

 torn. 4, p. 48). These tribes called their country 

 Aztlan, or TeO-Acolhuacan, and declared it to be near 

 Amaquemecan (Garcia, Origen. de los Indios, p. 182 

 and 502). The Aztecks had migrated from Aztlan, 

 according to Gama, in 1064 ; according to Clavigero, 

 in 1 160. The Mexicans, properly so called, separated 

 themselves from the Tlascaltecks and the Chalcks in 

 the mountains of Zacatecas (Clav., torn. 1, p. 156 ; 

 Torq. torn. 1, p. 87 ; Gama, Descripcion de dos Pie- 

 dras, p. 21). 



Arrival of the Aztecks at Tlalixco, or Acahualtzinco, 

 in 1087 ; reform of the calendar, and first festival 

 of the new fire, since the going out from Aztlan, in 

 1091. 



