170 
represented in the ninth sheet ^ of the manu- 
script. 
3. Annals of the Mexican Empire, These in- 
clude three hundred and sixty-four years. This 
part of the work, with which Botiirini, Clavi- 
gero, and Gama, were unacquainted, aiid which 
seems to be of the greatest authenticity, de- 
serves to be consulted by those who would wish 
to undertake a classical history of the Mexican 
nations. From the year 1197, as far as to the 
middle of the fifteenth century, these annals re- 
late but a very small number of facts, scarcely 
one or two in an interval of thirleett years ; 
from 1454 the narrative becomes more circum- 
stantial ; and from 1472 to 1549 we find at large, 
and almost year by year, an account of what- 
ever was remarkable in the physical and poli- 
tical state of the country. The pages cofitainihg 
the periods from 1274 to 1385, from 1496 to 
1502, and from 1518 to 1529, are wanting. In 
this last interval, the entrance of the Spaniards 
into Mexico took place. The figures are mis- 
shapen, but often of great simplicity. We shall 
cite, among the objects worthy of attention, the 
image of the king Huitzilihuitl, who, having no 
legitimate children by his wife, took a paintress-f* 
* Plate 55, fig. 2. 
+ Plate 55, fig’. 3. 
