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HISTORY OF MEXICO. 



fides, that thefe tribes came to that country afcer the 

 Chechemecas, as their arrival happened in that interval 

 between the arrival of the Chechemecas and that of the 

 Acolhuas. 



There is no memory of any other people who came 

 into Anahuac about that time, except thofe tribes con- 

 ducted by the above mentioned chiefs. Acofta makes 

 thefe tribes almofl three centuries more ancient, as he 

 fays they arrived on the banks of the Mexican lake in the 

 year 902, after a peregrination of eighty years; but this 

 chronology does not accord well with hiftory, from 

 which it appears that when Xolotl arrived at the vale of 

 Mexico with his colony of Chechemecas, he found the 

 banks of that lake depopulated, and the arrival of this 

 colony could not happen before the middle of the twelfth 

 century, according to what we have faid. 



The year of the arrival of the Acolhuas is not known ; 

 but we do not doubt that it has been towards the end 

 of the twelfth century, becaufe they came a few years 

 after the arrival of thofe fix tribes; and befides, it is evi- 

 dent from hiftory itfelf, that Xolotl furvived their arrival 

 fome years. 



The lad nation, or tribe, which arrived at Anahuac 

 was that of the Mexicans. Among fo many hiflorians 

 confulted by us, we have not found one of a contrary 

 opinion except Betancourt, who makes the Otomies 

 come after them. 



Acofta fixes the arrival of the Mexicans on the banks 

 of the Mexican lake in the year 1208, becaufe he affirms 

 that they arrived there three hundred and fix years af- 

 ter the Xochimilcas, and other tribes of the Nahuat- 

 lacas, who he believes arrived in 902. Torquema- 

 da, according to the calculation made by Betancourt 



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