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HISTORY OF MEXICO. 



federates of the Tlateloicos, did a£lually affift in this war. 

 Of their other alHes, hiflorians fay, that having come to 

 the fuccour of the Tlateiolcos, after the king Moquihuix 

 was killed and the conflifl over, they returned without ac- 

 tion. The moment that Axayacatl found himfeif vi£i:ori- 

 ous, he condemned Pojahuitl, and Ehecatzitzimitl, both of 

 them Tlateiolcos, to the lad punifhment, for having been 

 the perfons who mod keenly excited the citizens againft 

 the Mexicans, and alfo put the lords of Xochimiico, Gui- 

 tlahuac, Colhuacan, Huitzilopochco and others, to death, 

 for entering into a confederacy with his enemies. 



To take revenge of the Matlatzincas, a numerous and 

 powerful nation, eftabliflied in the valley of Toluca, and 

 ftill unfubje£i:ed to the Mexicans, Axayacatl declared war 

 againft them, and marching with the two allied kings he 

 took in his pafTage, Atlapolco, and Xalatlauhco ; and 

 afterwards he conquered in the fame valley, Toluca, 

 Tetenanco, Metepec, Tzinacantepec, Calimaja, and other 

 places in the fouth divifion of the valley, which continued, 

 from that time forward, tributary to the crown of Mexico. 

 Some time after, he returned into the fame province, to 

 fubdue, likev^ife, the north part of the valley, at prefent 

 called Valle d'lxtlahuacan^ and in particular Xiquipilco, 

 a confiderable city and ftate of the Otomies, whofe lord, 

 called Tlilcuezpalin was famous for his bravery. Axaya- 

 catl;, who likewife boafted of his courage, was anxious to 

 engage him in fmgle combat during the battle, which 

 took place ; but the event proved difaftrous to Axayacatl 

 himfeif ; he received a violent wound on the thigh, and 

 two captains of the Otomies advancing, brought him, 

 with a few ftrokes more, to the ground, and would have 

 made him prifoner, if fome young Mexicans had not, 

 when they faw their king in fuch danger, refolutely de- 

 fended 



