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

 tochtli, or 1414 ; the falls of snowf- 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 1460k 1462, 1468, 1480, 1495, 1507, 

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

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

 sacrifice|| ; the appearance of two comets in 

 1490^[ 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^ 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 ; the 



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



| PL 55, fig. 7, et PI. 56, fig. 2. 



§ PI. 56, fig. 7. || See vol. xiii, p. 217. 



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



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



§§ PI. 56, fig. 4. UK Idem, idem. 



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



ttfPl. 56, fig. 5. 



