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HISTORY OF MEXICO. 



I fee they love me ftill more than I believed. I was 

 defirous of increafing the water of my garden, and 

 behold my fiibje6i:s have done it without any expence : 

 it is proper therefore to rejoice at my happinefs." 

 He then ordered there fl:iould be rejoicings in the court, 

 and when they were concluded, he departed full of an- 

 guifli and difdain for Tenayuca, refolved to inflict ex- 

 emplary punifhment on the confpirators ; but there he 

 was feized with a mortal diftemper which moderated 

 his paffion. 



Being now fenfible of an approaching death, he call- 

 ed prince Nopaltzin to him, his daughters, and Acol- 

 huatzin his fon-in-law, the other princes being now 

 dead, and recommended to them concord among them- 

 felves, the care of the people committed to their charge, 

 the protection of the nobility, and clemency to all their 

 fubje6ls ; after v;hich, a few hourSj in the midft of the 

 tears and plaints of his children, he ended his life in 

 a very advanced age, having reigned in that country, 

 as appears, more than forty years. He was a robuft 

 and courageous man, but of a mod affectionate heart 

 to his children, and m.ild to his people. His reign 

 w^ould have been more happy had its duration been 

 more fliort {q). 



The news of the death of the king immediately 

 fpread over the whole kingdom, and fpeedy advice of 

 it was given to the principal lords, that they might 

 attend at the funeral. They adorned the royal corpfe 

 with various little figures of gold and filver, which the 

 Chechemecas, having been inftruCted by the Toltecas, 

 had begun now to work, and placed it in a chair made 



of 



(q) Torquemacia gives XolotI one hundred and thirteen years of reign, ani 

 more than two hundred years of life. On this fee our DilTertation, 



