Chap. V. 



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Mexico, with whom they had almoit continual War- and upon that account, as. 

 hath been faid,a(Tifted Cortejitis in the Conqtieft of the Kingdom, without whofehelp 

 'cis mod certain he had never been able todo any thing. They enjoy thereforema* 

 ny fpecial Priviledges and Immunities mote than other Amentum do, They pay 

 no Tribute, but onely a handful of Wheat yearly for every Perfon, by way of ac- 

 knowledgment, other wife living, under the Protection of the Spaniards, wholly irji 

 the Form of their ancient Government. In former times they were great Marl- 

 eaters, and not onely eat the Flefli of their Enemies, but alfo of one anotther, info* 

 much that Man's*flefh hung in publick to be fold. 



The River Zabuatl, which ru flies out of the Mountain Xtcoleucalt, oftentimes River *«- 

 overflows all the Countrey near it, and waflies away divers Houfes. Zabuatl figni- 

 fies Scabby Water, becaufe all thofe, efpecially Children, that wafli in the fame, are 

 lure to be Scabby. On its Banks the Spaniards have built many Houfes, thefafliion 

 whereof is now alfo imitated by the Indians of this Province, who formerly built 

 quite after another manner - for they made low Houfes of Earth, Wood and Stone, 

 with larae and ft range Chambers j fome a Stoncs-caft one from another, others 

 clofe together, had narrow crooked Streets that ran betwixt them. 



In this Province are two forts of Languages fpoken, yfa the Mexican, and that rimfe*** 

 of the Ottomons, who formerly deferting ^Mexico., chofe the Tlafcallans for their 

 Protectors : They are a toilfom and painful People. 



To the Northward of Tlafcalla are Mountains, which all the year long, except 

 three Moneths,are cover'd with Mift j and the Woods on the tops of them are a 

 great flielter to Lyons, T.ygers, Wolves, and wild Dogs, call'd Aims, and other 

 wild Beafts, which do much hurt to the fmall Cattcl. Here are ajfo many Serpents 

 and Adders, 



The whole Province is faid to contain two hundred good Towns and Bur- 

 roughs, and more than one thoufand Villages, all of them exceedingly populous, 

 and fuppos'd to contain in the whole above a Million and half of Natives, befides 

 Spaniards, who have fome few Colonies in the Countrey for fecuring of it. 



The chief Towns of the Province are i . Tlafcalla it felf, which denominates the T<jj»*d 

 whole Countrey as the Metropolis, and where the Bifliop's See was at firft, till in 

 the Year 155 c?. it was remov'd to <Puebla de los Angelas. It is afairTown,and com- 

 modiouily feated in the midft of a large and fertile Champainof threefcore Miles in 

 compafs. It confifteth of four large and beautiful Streets or Quarters, and in the 

 midft of them where they all meet, hath a Ttaz&a, or Marketplace, equal to that 

 of Mexico, and able to receive twenty or thirty thoufand Perfons conveniently, to 

 Buy and Sell in it ; and whofe Shambles feldom fhew lefs than fifteen thoufand 

 Sheep, four thoufand Oxen, and two thoufand Hogs. 



2. <PuebU de los Angelas, or The Qty of Angels, a Town built by Sebaflian %amire^ 

 a Church-man, and he that was the firft Prefident, or chief Governor of Mexico, un. 

 der the Crown of Caftile. It was built in the Year 1 531. almoft in the Road-way 

 from Vera Crux to Mexico, and feated in a very delicate and fertile Countrey, and of 

 a good Air. It is a Bifliop's See, and valu'd at twenty thoufand Ducats of yearly 

 Rent, the City it felf fuppos'd to contain about fifteen hundred Families • where 

 there is abundance of excellent Cloth made, and for finenefs not yielding to the 

 beft of Spain. Its chief Edifices are, the Cathedral and four (lately Cloyfters, be- 

 longing to the Dominicans, Francifcans, Auguftines, and Capucbhis 5 as alfo a Free-School 

 for five hundred Indian Children, endow'd by %amire^ with a yearly Revenue. 



3. Zempoallan, feated upon a River of the fame Name. 



4. T>{apalaca, in the Valley Ocumba } ows its original to an Indian call'd Juan, who 



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