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his life, together with his crown, was taken from him 

 by the tyrant Tezozomoc ; he began therefore to reign 

 in 1406. 



Huitzilihuitl. Refpe&ing the number of years 

 which this monarch reigned hiftorians are extremely dif- 

 ferent in opinion. Siguenza fays, ten years and ten 

 months. Acofta and Martinez give him thirteen; the 

 Interpreter, twenty-one. Torquemada attefts, that 

 among the Mexican hiftorians whom he confulted, fome 

 give him twenty-two years and others twenty-fix ; but 

 we have no doubt that the true number of years is that 

 mentioned by the Interpreter j becaufe we know, from 

 the hiftorical paintings of the Mexicans, that the thir- 

 teenth year of this king was a fecular year, which, ac- 

 cording to our chronological table, mud have been the 

 year 1402 ; he began therefore to reign in 1389. Hav- 

 ing died in 14 10, as appears from what we have faid 

 concerning the reign of Chimalpopoca, we ought to aL- 

 low Huitzilihuitl twenty-one years of reign. 



AcamapitzIi\. Suppofing the chronology of the 

 preceding kings to be juil, and the epoch of the foun- 

 dation of Mexico to be eftablifhed, we have little to fay 

 with regard to the reign of this king. Torquemada 

 affirms, that the paintings and manufcript hiftories fix 

 the election of Acamapitzin in the twenty-eighth year 

 after the foundation of Mexico. He was elected there- 

 fore in 1352, or in the beginning of 1353, and his reign 

 mud have lafled thirty-feven years, or fomething lefs. 

 The interregnum which happened after the death of this 

 king was of four months, as Siguenza fays; whereas all 

 the others were but of a few days. 



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