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condu^led triumphantly away and celebrated the nup- 

 tials with the utmofl rejoicings. 



The Tlatelolcos who, from being neighbours and ri- 

 vals, were conftantly obferving what was done in Terioch- 

 titlan, that they might vie with it in glory, and prevent 

 their being in future opprelTed by that power, alfo creat- 

 ed themfelves a king : but not efteeming it advantageous 

 that he fliould be one of their own nation, they demand- 

 ed of Azcapozalco, king of the Tepaneca nation, to 

 which lord the fite of Tlatelolco, as well as Mexico was 

 fubjecl, one of his fons, that he might rule over them as 

 their monarch, and that they might obey him as vafTals. 

 The king gave them his fon ^aquauhpitzahuac^ v/ho 

 was immediately crowned firft king of Tlatelolco in i353« 

 It is to be fufpedled that the Tlatelolcos, when they 

 made fuch a demand from that king, had, with a view 

 to flatter and incenfe him againft their rivals, exaggerated 

 the infolence of the Mexicans in creating a king without 

 his permiffion ; as in a few days after Azcapozalco af- 

 fembled his counfeiiors, and fpoke to them in the fol- 

 lowing words : " What is your judgment, nobles of 

 " Tepaneca, of this a^lof the Mexicans? They have in- 

 troduced themfelves into our dominions, and continue 

 " to increafevcry confiderably their city and their com- 

 merce, and what is worfe have had the audacity to 

 " create one of their ovv^n nation a king, without waiting 

 " for our confent. If they proceed thus in the beginning 

 of their eftabliflimxnt, what is to be imagined they will 

 do hereafter when they have increafed their numbers 

 " and added to their ftrength ? Is it not to be appre- 

 " hended that in future, inflead of paying us the tribute 

 which we have impofed on them, they will pretend that 

 we fliould pay it to them, and that the petty king of 

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