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five Mexicans, i. (We may be sur- 
prised, that the remembrance of so 
trivial a circumstance should have been 
preserved for ages.) 
Fig. 3. Tribute of eight hundred tigers skins. 
Fig. 4. Tribute of twenty tigers skins. 
Fig. 5. Tribute of ingots of gold and gold 
dust. 
Fig. 6. Tribute of four hundred pots of honey 
drawn from the maguey, agave ame- 
ricana. 
Fig. 7. Soldiers of the order of priests. 
Fig. 8. One of the chief priests, u, goes in the 
night, d, to the mountain to do penance ; 
he carries fire, and a purse filled with 
perfume of copal ; he is followed by a 
novice, h. Another priest, c, plays 
during the night on an instrument of 
music, called teponatztli, A third 
priest, fy notes the hour by observation 
of the stars, e. 
Fig. 9. Tribute of stuffs for clothing. Each 
bale (a, 6, c, d, and e^) contains four 
hundred pieces, indicated by the cipher 
inscribed on it. 
Fig. 10 and 11. The same. 
Fig. 12. A mother, n, instructing her daughter, 
0 , to weave, q. 
Fig. 13. A goldsmith instructing his son. 
