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" brothers. Do you, my fon," addreiSng Tlotzin, 

 " keep conflantly in your eyes the image of your grand- 

 " father, and flrive to imitate the examples of prudence 

 " and juflice which he left us. Strengthen your heart 

 " with every virtue which you will have occafion for, to 

 " govern your fubje^ls." After condoling fome time 

 with his fon, the king departed for his court of Tenayuca. 



The prince Acolhuatzin, who was flill living, think- 

 ing the boundaries of his flate of Azcapozalco too nar- 

 row, refolved to take poffelTion of Tepotzotlan, and in 

 faft took it by force, in fpite of the refiftance made by 

 Chalchiuhcua, lord of that flate. It is to be believed, 

 that Acolhuatzin would not have done fo violent an a6l 

 without the exprefs confent of the king, who was, pro- 

 bably, willing to revenge himfelf in that manner of fome 

 offence he had received from Chalchiuhcua. 



The contefl was a good deal more bloody which arofc 

 a little after from interefls of a very different nature. 

 Huetzin, lord of Coatlichan, fon of the late prince Tzon- 

 tecomatl (j), was defirous of marrying Atotoztli, a noble 

 and beautiful virgin, and grand-daughter of the queen. 

 Jacazozolotl, lord of Tepetlaoztoc, made fimilar pre- 

 tenfions ; but either being more flrongly enamoured, or 

 more violent in temper, not content with having de- 

 matided her of her father, he was willing to render him- 

 felf mafter of his beauty by arms 5 and for this purpofe 



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(j) Torquemada makes Huetzin, fon of Itzmitl, and him fon of Tzonteco- 

 matl in the thirteenth chapter of book the firft ; but in chapter 40, he fays, that 

 Itzmitl was one of thofe who came with Xolotl from Amaquemecan, fo that he 

 makes him born before his father Tzontecomatl, as he was a young man only 

 when he came to Anahuac ; and he did not come before the 47th year of the 

 reign of Xolotl, as the fame author affirms. Befides in one place, he makes Itz- 

 mitl a pure Chechemecan ; and in another place the fon of an Acolhuan. But 

 who is capable of marking all the contradidlions and anachronlfms of Torque- 

 mada ? 



