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in a very distant country, north of Mexico. 
Near the fourteenth head is written the name of 
Vitznahuatl. If this prince were the same per- 
son with a king of Huexotla, whom the Mexican 
historians name also Vitznahuatl, and who lived 
about the year 1430, the genealogy of the family 
of Azcapozalco would go back to the year 1010 
of our era, in reckoning only thirty years for 
each generation. But how then can we explain 
the ten following generations, as the drawing 
appears to have been made towards the end of 
the sixteenth century ? Neither shall I decide 
why the year 1565 is marked between the names 
of the two princes, Anahuacatzin and Quauh- 
temotzin. We know, that the last of these 
names is that of the unfortunate Azteck king, 
whom Gomara falsely names Quahutimoc ; and 
who, by order of Cortez, was hung up by the feet 
in 1521, as is proved by a very valuable hiero- 
glyphical history, preserved in the Convent of 
San Felipe Neri, at Mexico*. But how could 
this king, nephew of Montezuma, figure in 
the family of the lords or tlatoanis of Azcapo- 
zalco ? 
It is certain, that, when the last of these 
princes ordered the genealogical painting of his 
ancestors to be composed, his father and grand- 
father were still living. This circumstance is 
* See my Political Essay on New-Spain, p. 185. 
