MIGRATION 
‘ r' 
OF 
THE AZTECK NATIONS, 
FROM A 
HIEROGLYPHIC PAINTING 
DEPOSITED IN THE ROYAL LIBRARY 
AT 
I 
BERLIN. 
PLATE XXXVIII. 
This ill preserved fragment appears to have 
made part of a great picture, which formerly 
belonged to the collection of the Chevalier Bo- 
turini. The figures are very clumsily painted on 
amatl^ or paper maguey (agave americana). We 
behold in it a marshy country on the left, indicat- 
ed by the hieroglyphic of water, atl; prints of feet, 
xocpal-machiotl^ representing the migrations of 
a warlike people ; arrows shot from one bank 
of a river toward the other ; combats between 
