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HISTORY OF MEXICO. 



But Tzompan confiding in the number of his troops, re- 

 jected the olFer with contempt ; when the king fent an 

 army againfl him, which was joined by the Mexicans and 

 Tepanecas, whofe fervice he had demanded. The war 

 was obftinate, and lafted for two months : but at length, 

 vi(ftory declaring for the king, Tzompan, with all the 

 chiefs of the revolted cities, was put to death, and in him 

 was extinguifhed the illuflrious race of Chiconquauhtli. 

 This war, in which the Mexicans ferved as auxiliaries to 

 the king of Acolhuacan againft Xaltocan and the other 

 confederated flates, is reprefented in the third pifture of 

 Mendoza's colle£i:ion : but the interpreter of thofe pic- 

 tures was miftaken when he imagined that thofe cities 

 were fubje6led to the Mexican crown. 



After the end of the war the Mexicans returned to 

 their city with glory ; and Techotlala, in order to pre- 

 vent other rebellions in future, divided his kingdom into 

 feventy-five dates, giving each a chief to govern them in 

 fubordination to the crown. In each of them he likewife 

 placed a certain number of the inhabitants of fome other 

 ftate ; expefting that the natives would be more eafily 

 kept in fubje6lion by means of ftrangers who depended 

 upon a foreign power ; a policy which might, indeed, 

 be ufefui in preventing rebellion, but which was very 

 oppreffive to the innocent fubjeCls, and created much 

 trouble to the chiefs who were entrufted with the go- 

 vernment. At the fame time, he conferred honourable 

 offices upon many of the nobles. He made Tetlato ge- 

 neral of his armies, Tolqui entertainer and introducer of 

 ambalTadors, Tlami major-domo of the royal palace, 

 Amechichi overfeer of the cleaning of the royal houfes, 

 and Cohuatl direflor of the gold-workers of Ocolco. No 

 perfon worked in gold or filver, for the ufe of the king, 



except 



