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HISTORY OF MEXICO. 



BOOK V. 



Events under Montezuma IL the ninth King of Mexico^ 

 until the Tear 15 19. Particulars of his Life^ his Go- 

 vermnent^ and the Magnificence of his Palaces^ Gar^ 

 dens, and Woods, The War of Tlafcala, and fome Ac- 

 count of Tlahuicole, a Tlafcalan Captain. Death and 

 Eulogium of Nezahualpilli y King of Acolhiiacan, and 

 new Revolutions in that Kingdom. Prefages of the 

 Arrival of the Spaniards. 



A HUITZOTL being dead, and his funeral cele- 

 Jr\. brated with extraordinary magnificence, they pro- 

 ceeded to the election of a new fovereign. No brother 

 of the preceding kings furvived ; on which account, ac- 

 cording to the law of the kingdom, one of the grandfons 

 of the laft king, who were fons of his predecelTors, had 

 the right of fucceffion ; of thefe there were many ; for 

 of the fons of Axayacatl, Montezuma, Cuitlahuac, Ma- 

 tlatzincatl,Pinahuitzin, Cecepa£licatzin, were ftill living, 

 and of thofe of king Tizoc, Ima6i:lacuijatzin, Tepehuat- 

 zin, and others, whofe names we do not know. Mon- 

 tezuma, who was called by the name of Xocojotzin {a)^ 

 to diftinguilh him from the other king of that name, was 

 defied in preference to all the others. 



Befides 



{a) The author of the Annotations to Cortes's Letters, printed in Mexico in 

 the year 1770 fays, that Montezuma H. was fon of Montezuma I. This is a 

 grofs miftake, as we know from all the hiftorians, both Mexican and Spanifli, 

 that he was the fon of Axayacatl. See Torquemada, Bernal Diaz, the interpre- 

 ter of Mendoza's Colledion, &c. 



The firft Montezuma was called by the Mexicans Huehue Moteuczoma^ and 

 the fecond Moteuczoma Xocojotzin^ names which are equivalent to the fenior and 

 junior of tht Latins. 



