for his mistress, and who. died* in the year 13 
tochtliy or 1414 ; the falls of snow'f" which took 
place in 1447 and 1503, and which caused a 
great mortality among the natives, by destroy- 
ing the corn that had been sown; the earth- 
quakes of 1460t 1462, 1468, 1480, 1495, 1507. 
1533, and 1542 ; the eclipses of the Sun § in 
1476, 1496, 1507, 1510, 1531 ; the first human 
sacrifice II ; the appearance of two comets in 
1490^ and 1529 ; the arrival** and the deathff 
of the first bishop of Mexico, Fray Juan Zu- 
maraga, in 1532 and 1549 ; the departure of 
Nunez de Guzman;}::}: for the conquest of Xalis- 
co ; the death of the celebrated Pedro Alvarado, 
called by the natives Tonatiuh, the on ac- 
count of his flaxen hair §§ ; the baptism of an In- 
dian by a monk II II ; an epidemic malady, which 
depopulated Mexico under the viceroy Men- 
doza, in 1544 and 1545 ; the insurrection and 
punishment*** of the negroes of Mexico in 1537 ; 
a tempest which devastated the forests ; the 
* Plate 55, fig. 4. f Plate 55, fig. 5 and 6. 
.+ PI. 55, fig. 7, et PI. 56, fig. 2. 
§ PI, 56, fig. 7. 
IF PI. 55, fig. 8. 
ft PI. 56, fig. 6. 
§§ Pi. 56, fig. 4. 
1151 PI. 56, fig. 5. 
ttt PI. 56, fig. 5. 
II See vol. xiii, p. 217. 
** PI. 56, fig. 1. 
Xt PI. 55, fig. 9. 
nil Idem, idem. 
PI. 56, fig. 2. 
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