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asserts^ that these princes, jealous of the anti- 
quity of their nobility, carried back their origin 
as far as the first age of our era. They were 
neither of the Mexican nor Azteck race ; they 
considered themselves as descendants of the 
Acolhuan kings, who had governed the country 
of, Anahuac before the arrival of the Aztecks, 
by whom the princes of Azcapozalco were made 
tributaries in the eleventh calU of the Mexican 
era, which corresponds to the year 1425 of the 
Christian. 
/ 
The genealogical painting, which we publish, 
appears to contain twenty-four generations, in- 
dicated by as many heads placed one above an- 
other. We must not be surprised at never 
seeing more tlian one son ; since among the 
poorest Indians, that are tributary, every inhe- 
ritance descends to the eldest son^\ The ge- 
nealogy begins with a prince named Tixlpit- 
zin, whom we must not confound with Tecpalt- 
zin, the chief of the Aztecks, in their first 
migration from Aztlaii ; or with Topiltzin, the 
last king of the Toltecks : but we shall perhaps ’ 
wonder at not finding, instead of the name of 
Tixlpitzin, that of Acolhuatzin, first king of 
Azcapozalco, of the family of the Citins, who, 
according to the tradition of the natives, reigned 
• Gomara, Hist, de la Conquista de Mexico j 1553, f. 
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