88 



MIGRATION 



or 



THE AZTECK NATIONS, 



FROM 4 



HIEROGLYPHIC PAINTING 



DEPOSITED IN THE ROYAL LIBRARY 



AT 



BERLIN. 



PLATE XXXVIII. 



♦ 



This ill preserved fragment appears to have 

 made part of a great picture, which formerly 

 belonged to the collection of the Chevalier Bo- 

 turini. The figures are very clumsily painted on 

 amatl, or paper of maguey (agave americana). We 

 behold in it a marshy country on the left, indicat- 

 ed by the hieroglyphic of water, at I; prints of feet, 

 xocpal-machiotl, representing the migrations of 

 a warlike people ; arrows shot from one bank 

 of a river toward the other ; combats between 



