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the coaft of the Mexican gulf, befides the garments of 

 cotton, gold, and cocoas, were obliged to contribute 

 feventy-four thoufand handfuls of feathers, of different 

 colours and qualities, fix necklaces, two of the fined 

 emeralds, and four of thofe which were ordinary ; twenty 

 ear-rings of amber, adorned with gold, and as many of 

 cryflal ; a hundred fma!l cups or jugs of liquid amber, 

 and fixteen thoufand balls of ule, or elaftic gum. c Ie- 

 pejacac, S^uecholac^ Tecamachalco^ Acatzinco, and other 

 places of thofe regions, furnifhed four thoufand facks 

 of lime, four thoufand loads of atatli, or folid canes, fit 

 to be ufed in buildings, and as many loads of the fame 

 canes of a fmaller fize, fit for making darts, and eight 

 thoufand loads of acajetl, or little reeds, full of aroma- 

 tic fubftances. Malinaltepec, TIakozauhiitlan, Olinallan^ 

 Ichcatlan^ ^ualac, and other places of fouthern hot coun- 

 tries, fix hundred cups of honey, forty large bafons of 

 lecozahuitl, or yellow ochre, fit for painting, a hundred 

 and fixty axes of copper, forty round plates of gold, of 

 a certain diameter and thicknefs, ten fmall meafures of 

 fine turquoifes, and one load of ordinary turquoifes. 

 SuauhnahuaC) Panchimalco, Atlacholoaja?i 9 Xiuhtepec, 

 Huitzilac, and other places belonging to the Tlahuicas, 

 fixteen thoufand pieces, or large fheets of paper, and four 

 thoufand xicalli (natural vafes, of which we (hall treat 

 hereafter), of different fizes. S^uauhtitlan, Tehuillojocan, 

 and other places which were neighbouring to them, eight 

 thoufand mats, and as many feats or chairs. Other 

 places contributed fuel, (tone, a certain number of beams 

 and planks fit for buildings, and a certain quantity of 

 copal, &c. Some tributary people were obliged to fend 

 to the royal palaces and woods a certain number of birds 

 and quadrupeds, namely, the people of Xilotepec, Mich- 



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