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HISTORY OF MEXICO, 



His lawful children by the Toltecan queen were Tlot- 

 zin, Quauhtequihua, and Apopozoc. On Tlotzin, who 

 was the firft-born, he conferred the government of Tez- ' 

 cuco, that he might begin to learn the difficult art of 

 governing men ; and the other two were placed over the 

 ftates of Zacatlan and Tenamitic (r). 



The king pafTed one year in the court of Tenayuca, 

 arranging the affairs of the ftate, which were not fo fet- 

 tled as they had been at firft. From thence he went to 

 Tezcuco, to treat with his fon about the mod conve- 

 nient meafures to be taken to reftore the former tran- 

 quillity of his kingdom. While he was there he went 

 one day into the royal gardens with his fon, and fome 

 other lords of the court, and as they were in converfa- 

 tion, he burft fuddenly into a flood of tears ; being re- 

 queued to explain the caufe, " Two caufes," faid he, 

 ^' produce my tears, the one the memory of my late fa- 

 ther, which is revived by the fight of this place where 

 " he ufed to take recreation ; the other is the compari- 

 fon which 1 make of thefe happy days with the pre- 

 " fent bitter moments. When my father planted thefc 

 " gardens, he had quiet fubjefts, who ferved him with 

 fmcerity, and received the offices which he conferred 

 upon them, with humility and gratitude ; but at pre- 

 fent ambition and difcord are every where prevailing. 

 It troubles me to be obliged to ufe the fubje6ls as ene- 

 mies, whom I once in this place treated as friends and 



" brothers. 



(r) If wc are to adopt the chronology of Torquemada, we muft give Nopalt- 

 zin when he mounted the throne one hundred and thirty years of age ; as when 

 he arrived with his father in the country of Anahuac, he was at leaft eighteen 

 or twenty years, which added to the one hundred and thirteen years, which, 

 according to Torquemada, Xolotl reigned in that country, make one hundred 

 and thirty-one, or one hundred and thirty-three. On this fee our Second Dif- 

 fertation. 



