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HISTORY OF MEXICO. 



his father, he armed him as a knight according to the 

 cuftom of Caftile. 



About this fame time, though from a very different 

 caufe, the death of the prince Cuicuitzcatzin happened, 

 whom Montezuma and Cortes had placed on the throne 

 of Acolhuacan hi the room of his unfortunate brother 

 Cacamatzin. He was not permitted to enjoy long his 

 borrowed dignity, for he who had given him the crown 

 very foon deprived him of his liberty. He departed from 

 Mexico among the other prifoners that night of the de- 

 feat of the Spaniards ; but he had then the fortune, or 

 perhaps rather misfortune to efcape, as he was foon to 

 lofe his life in a more ignominious manner. He accom- 

 panied the Spaniards in their engagements as far as Tlaf- 

 cala, where he remained, until having become either 

 impatient of oppreflion or defirous of recovering the 

 throne, he fled in fecret to Tezcuco. At this court his 

 brother Coanacotzin was then reigning, to whom, after 

 the death of Cacamatzin the crown in right belonged. 

 Cuicuitzcatzin had hardly made his appearance when he 

 was made prifoner by the royal minifters, who gave 

 fpeedy advice to their king of it, who was then abfent 

 at Mexico. He communicated it to king Quauhtemot- 

 zin his coufin, who confidering that fugitive prince a 

 fpy of the Spaniards, thought he fhould be put to death. 

 Coanacotzin, either to pleafe that monarch, or to take 

 away from Cuicuitzcatzin any opportunity of attempt- 

 ing to recover the crown to the prejudice of his own 

 right and the peace of the kingdom, executed that fen- 

 tence upon him. 



END OF THE SECOND VOLUME, 



