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enanco, and obtained a complete vi£lory ; but having met 

 with an obflinate refinance, he treated them with great 

 feverity. Afterwards he fubdued Quapilollan, and paf- 

 fed from thence to make war on Quetzalcuitlapillan, a 

 large province peopled with a warlike nation (j) ; and 

 laflly turned his arms againft Suaiihtla^ a place fituate on 

 the coaft of the gulf of Mexico, in which war Monte- 

 zuma, the fon of AxayacatI, and the fucceflbr of Ahuit- 

 zotl in the kingdom diflinguiflied himfelf. A little time 

 after, the Mexicans together with the Tezcucans, went 

 againft the Huexotzincas, in which war Tezcatzin, the 

 brother of the above mentioned Montezuma, and Tlil- 

 tototl, a noble Mexican officer, who afterwards became 

 general of the army, gained great renown. We do not 

 find in hiftorians either the caufe or particulars of this 

 war. The expedition againft the Huexotzincas being 

 concluded, Ahuitzotl celebrated the dedication of a new 

 temple called Tlacatecco^ at which the prifoners made in 

 the preceding wars were facrificed ; but the rejoicings of 

 this feftival were difturbed by the burning of the temple 

 of Tlillan. 



Thus this king continued in conftant wars until 1496, 

 in which the war of Atlixco happened. The entry of 

 the Mexican army into this valley was fo unexpefted, 

 that the firft intimation which the Atlixchefe nation had 

 of it was the fight of them when they entered. They 

 took up arms immediately in their defence; but finding 

 they had not forces fufficient to refift any length of time, 

 they applied to the Huexotzincas, their neighbours, for 



affiftance. 



(j) Torquemada fays, that Ahuitzotl having frequently attempted the con- 

 queft of Quetzalcuitlanpillan, did never yet fucceed; hut among the conquefts 

 of this king in the eleventh painting of Mendoza's CoUedlion, this province is 

 reprefented. 



