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A22928	The naturall and morall historie of the East and West Indies Intreating of the remarkable things of heaven, of the elements, mettalls, plants and beasts which are proper to that country: together with the manners, ceremonies, lawes, governments, and warres of the Indians. Written in Spanish by the R.F. Ioseph Acosta, and translated into English by E.G.; Historia natural y moral de las Indias. English	Acosta, José de, 1540-1600.; Grimeston, Edward, attributed name.	1604 (1604)	STC 94; ESTC S100394	372,047	616

kingdome shall bee the Lordes This hath beene set downe acording to the letter but the hebrew Authors reade it thus And the transmigration of this O●t of the childrens which be the Cananites vnto Zarphat which is France and the transmigration of Ierusalem which is in Sapharad vnderstood for Spaine shall possesse for inheritance the Cities of the South and those which procure salvation shall mount vp to the hill of Sion to iudge the mount of Esau and the kingdome shall be the Lords Yet some of them doe not produce any sufficient testimony of the Ancients nor pertinent reasons to proove that Sapharad which S. Ierome doth interpret the Bosphor or Straight and the 70. Interpreters Euphrates should signifie Spaine but their onely opinion Others alleage the Caldean Paraphrase which is of this opinion and the ancient Rabbins which expound it on this sort as also that Zarphat is France which the vulgar and the 70 Interpreters call Sarepte But leaving this dispute which belongs to men of more leisure what necessitie is there to beleeve that the citties of the South or of Mageb as the 70 write be those of this new world Moreover what need is there to beleeve and to take the Spanish Nation for the transmigration from Ierusalem to Sapharad vnlesse we will vnderstand Ierusalem spiritually and thereby the Church So as by the transmigration from Ierusalem to Sapharad the holy spirite shewes vs the children of the holy Church which inhabit the ends of the earth the banks of the Sea for so is Sapharad vnderstood in the Syrian tongue and doth well agree with our Spaine which according to the Ancients is the ende of the earth beeing in a manner all invironed with Sea And by the Citties of the South we may well vnderstand these Indies seeing the greatest parte of this newe worlde is seated in the South and the better part looks to the Pole Antartike That which followeth is easie to interpret viz. They which procure Salvation shall ascend the hill of Sion to iudge the mount of Esau. For wee may say they vnite themselves to the doctrine and strength of the holy Church which seeke to breake and disperse the prophane errors of the Gentiles for that may be interpreted to iudge the mount of Esau whereby it followes that in those daies the Realme shall neyther bee for the Spaniards nor for them of Europe but for Iesus Christ our Saviour Whosoever shall expound the Prophecie of Abdias in this sort ought not to be blamed being most certaine that the holy Spirit did vnderstand all secrets long before And it seemes there is great reason to beleeve that mention is made in the holy Scripture of a matter of such importance as the discoverie of the Indies of the new world and their conversion to the faith Isay saith in these wordes Oh the wings of ships which come from the other part of Ethiopia Many learned Authors hold that al this Chapter is vnderstood of the Indies and that same Prophet in an other place saith Those which shall escape out of Israel shal goe farre off to Tharsis and to remote Ilands where they shal convert many Nations vnto the Lorde Amongest the which hee names Greece Italie Affricke with many others the which without doubt may well bee applied vnto the conversion of the Indies Being most certaine that the Gospel shall be preached generally throughout the world as our Saviour hath promised and then the ende of the world shall come It followes then and so we ought to vnderstand it that there be many Nations vpon the face of the earth to whom Iesus Christ hath not yet been preached Whereby we may gather that there remained a great part of the world vnknowne to the Ancients and that yet at this day there is a good part to discover By what meanes the first men might come to the Indies the which was not willingly nor of set purpose CHAP. 16. NOw it is time to make answer to such as say there are no Antipodes and that this region where we live cannot bee inhabited The huge greatnes of the Ocean did so amaze S. Augustine as he could not conceive how mankinde could passe to this new-found world But seeing on the one side wee know for certaine that many yeeres agoe there were men inhabiting in these parts so likewise we cannot deny but the scripture doth teach vs cleerely that all men are come from the first man without doubt we shall be forced to beleeve and confesse that men have passed hither from Europe Asia or Affricke yet must wee discover by what meanes they could passe It is not likely that there was an other Noes Arke by the which men might be transported into the Indies and much lesse any Angell to carie the first man to this new world holding him by the haire of the head like to the Prophet Abac●c for we intreat not of the mightie power of God but only of that which is conformable vnto reason the order and disposition of humane things Wherefore these two things ought to be held for wonderfull and worthie of admiration yea to bee numbred among the secrets of God The one is how man could passe so huge a passage by Sea and Lande The other is that there beeing such multitudes of people they have yet beene vnknowne so many ages For this cause I demaund by what resolution force or industrie the Indians could passe so large a Sea and who might be the Inventer of so strange a passage Truely I have often times considered thereof with my selfe as many others have done but never could I finde any thing to satisfie mee Yet will I say what I have conceived and what comes presently into my minde seeing that testimonies faile mee whom I might follow suffering my selfe to be guided by the rule of reason although it be very subtill It is most certaine that the first men came to this land of Peru by one of these two meanes either by land or by sea If they came by sea it was casually and by chance or willingly of purpose I vnderstand by chance being cast by force of some storme or tempest as it happens in tempestuous times I meane done of purpose when they prepared fleetes to discover new lands Besides these two meanes I see it is not possible to find out any other if wee will follow the course of humane things and not devise fabulous and poeticall fictions for no man may thinke to finde another Eagle as that of Ganimede or a flying Horse like vnto Perseu● that should carie the Indians through the aire or that peradventure these first men haue vsed fishes as Mir-maides or the fish called a Nicholas to passe them thither But laying aside these imaginations and fopperies let vs examine these two meanes the which will bee both pleasant and profitable First in my iudgement it were not farre from reason to say that the first and auncient people of these

say this word of Obrise is thesame with Ophrise for finding there seven sortes or kindes of gold as S. Ierome reportes that of Ophir was held for the most fine as heere we esteeme the gold of Valdivia and Caramaya The chiefest reason which moves me to thinke that Ophir is at the East Indies and not in the West is for that Solomons fleete could not come hither without passing the East Indies all China and a great part of the sea being vnlikely they would passe over all the world to come thither for gold that continent especially lying in that sort as they could not come to the knowledge thereof by any voiage by land And hereafter we wil shew that the Ancients had never knowledge in thearte of Navigation without the which they could not runne so farre into the sea Finally in these matters when as there appeares no certaine proofes but onely light coniectures wee are not bound to beleeve but what we shall thinke good What Tharsis and Ophir signifie in the holy Scripture CHAP. 14. IF every mans coniecture and opinion may be allowed for my part I hold that in the holy scripture these words of Tharsis and Ophir most commonly do not signifie any certaine place but it is a word and signification generall to the Hebrewes as in our vulgar tongue this word of Indies is generall vnto vs in our vsuall maner ofspeech for wee meane by the Indies those rich countries which are farre off and strange vnto vs. So we Spaniards do indifferently call Indies the countries of Peru Mexico China Malaca and Bresil and from what parts soever of these any letters come wee say they bee from the Indies which countries be farre distant and different one from another Yet we cannot denie but that name of Indies is properly to be vnderstood of the East Indies And for that in olde time they did speake of these Indies as of a countrie farre off so likewise in the discoverie of other remote lands they have given them the names of Indies being distant from the rest and held as the end of the world Even so in my iudgement Tharsis in the holy scripture doth not signifie any certaine and determined place but onely regions a farre off and according to the vulgar opinion very rich and strange for that which Iosephus and some others would affirme that Tharsis is Tarso according to the meaning of the scripture in my opinion hath bene well refuted by S. Ierome not onely for that these wordes are written with divers letters the one with an aspiration the other without but also that many things are written of Tharsis which cannot agree with Tarso a Citie in Cilicia It is true that in some places of the scripture Tharsis is said to be in Cilicia the which you shall find in the booke of Iudith speaking of Holophernes who having passed the limits of Assyria he came to the great mountaines of Ange which perchance is Taurus which hilles be on the left hand of Cilicia and that he entred into all the Castells where he assembled all his forces having destroyed that famous Citie of Melothi he ruined all the children of Tharsis and of Israell which were ioyning vnto the desart and those which were in the South towards the land of Cellon and from thence passed Euphrates but as I have saide that which is so written of Tharsis cannot be applied to the Citie of Tharso Theodoret and some others following the interpretation of the 70. in some places they set Tharsis in Affrike saying it was the same Citie which was aunciently called Carthage and is now the kingdome of Thunis and they say that Ionas ment to go thether when as the scripture reports that hefled from the Lord into Tharsis Others pretend that Tharsis is a certaine countrie of the Indies wherevnto it seemes that S. Ierome is inclined I will not now decide these opinions but I holde that in this case the scripture doth not alwaies signifie one region or certaine part of the world It is true that the wise men or Kings that came to worshippe Christ were of the East and the scripture saith they were of Saba Epha and Madiem And some learned men holde that they were of Ethiopia Arabia and Persia and yet the Psalmist and the Church sings of them The Kings of Tharsis shall bring presents Wee agree then with S. Ierome that Tharsis is a word that hath many and divers significations in the scripture Sometimes it signifies the Crisolite or Iacinth stone sometimes a certaine region of the Indies sometimes the sea which is of the colour of a Iacinth by the reverberation of the sunne But the same Doctor doth with reason deny that Tharsis is any region of the Indies whether Ionas would fly seeing that parting from Ioppa it had beene impossible to saile vnto the Indies by that sea for that Ioppa which at this day wee call Iaffe is no port of the red Sea ioyning to the East Indian Sea but of the Mediterranean Sea which hath no issue into the Indian Whereby it doeth plainely appeare that the voyage which Solomons Fleet made parting from Asiongaber whereas the shippes of king Iosaphat were lost went by the redde Sea to Tharsis and Ophir the which is directly testified in the Scripture The which voyage was very different from that which Ionas pretended to Tharsis seeing that Asiongaber is the port of a Cittie of Idumea seated vpon the Straight whereas the red sea ioynes with the great Ocean From this Ophir they brought to Salomon gold silver Elephants teeth Monkies Indian Cocks and their voyage was of three yeeres all which without doubt ought to bee vnderstood of the East Indies which is fruitfull and aboundant of all these thinges as Plinie testifieth and our owne experience doth witnes From our Peru doubtlesse they could not bring any Elephants teeth those beastes beeing vnknowne there but they might well bring gold silver and pleasant monkies Finally the holy Scripture in my opinion doth commonly vnderstand by this word of Tharsis eyther the great Sea or farre and strange Regions So as he supposeth that the prophecies which speake of Tharsis seeing the spirit of prophecie may comprehend all things may often be applied to things of our new world Of the Prophecie of Abdias which some doe interpret to be the Indies CHAP. 15. MAny say and affirme that in the holy Scripture it was foretold long before that this new worlde should be converted to Iesus Christ by the Spanish nation and to this purpose they expound the text of the Prophecie of Abdias which sayth thus At the transmigration of this O●t the children of Israel shall possesse all the the dwellings of the Cananites vnto Sarepte and the transmigration of Ierusalem which is at Bosphorus shall possesse the Citties of the South and they that shall save shall come vp to the hill of Sion to iudge the mount of Esau and the

into a very darke chappell where their idoll was that he might offer sacrifice to his daughter that was in that place But it chanced that the incense that was vpon the harth according to their custome kindled in such sort as hee might discerne his daughters haire and having by this meanes discovered the crueltie and deceit hee went forth crying alowde and with all his men he fell vpon the Mexicaines forcing them to retyre to the lake so as they were almost drowned The Mexicaines defended themselves casting certaine little darts which they vsed in the warres wherewith they much galled their ennemies But in the end they got land and leaving that place they coasted along the lake very weary and wet the women and little children crying and making great exclamations against them and their god that had brought them into this distresse They were inforced to passe a river that could not be waded through and therefore they advised to make small boates of their targets and of reedes wherein they passed Then afterwardes having left Culhuacan they arived at Iztacalco and finally to the place where the hermitage of Saint Anthonie now is at the entry of Mexico and to that quarter which they now call S. Paul During which time their idoll did comfort them in their travells and incoraged them promising great matters Of the Foundation of Mexico CHAP. 7. THe time being now come that the father of lies should accomplish his promise made to his people who could no longer suffer so many turnings travells and dangers it happened that some old priests or sorcerers being entred into a place full of water-lillies they met with a very faire and cleere current of water which seemed to be silver and looking about they found the trees medowes fish and all that they beheld to be very white wondring heereat they remembred a prophecie of their god whereby he had given them that for a token of their place of rest and to make them Lords of other Nations Then weeping for ioy they returned to the people with these good newes The night following VitzliputZli appeared in a dreame to an antient priest saying that they should seeke out a Tunal in the lake which grew out of a stone which as he told them was the same place where by his commandement they had cast the heart of Copil sonne to the sorceresse their enemy and vpon this Tunal they should see a goodly Eagle which fed on certaine small birdes When they should see this they should beleeve it was the place where their Cittie should be built the which shuld surmountal others be famous throughout the world Morning being come the old man assembled the whole people from the greatest to the least making a long speach vnto them how much they were bound vnto their god and of the Revelation which although vnworthy hee had received that night concluding that all must seeke out that happie place which was promised them which bred such devotion and ioy in them all that presently they vndertooke the enterprise and dividing themselves into bandes they beganne to search following the sign●s of the revelation of the desired place Amiddest the thickest of these water-lillies in the lake they met with the same course of water they had seene the day before but much differing being not white but red like blood the which divided it selfe into two streames whereof the one was of a very obscure azure the which bred admiration in them noting some great mistery as they said After much search heere and there the Tunal appeared growing on a stone whereon was a royall Eagle with the wings displaied toward●s the Sunne receiving his heat About this Eagle were many rich fethers white red yellow blew and greene of the same sort as they make their images which Eage held in his tallants a goodly birde Those which sawe it and knew it to be the place fore-tolde by the Oracle fel on their knees doing great worship to the Eagle which bowed the head looking on every side●●hen was their great cries demonstrations and thankes vnto the Creator and to their great god Vitzliputzli who was there father and had alwaies told them truth For this reason they called the cittie which they founded there Tenoxtiltan which signifies Tunal on a stone and to this day they carry in their armes an Eagle vpon a Tunal with a bird in his tallant and standing with the other vpon the Tunal The day following by common consent they made an hermitage adioyning to the Tunal of the Eagle that the Arke of their god might rest there till they might have meanes to build him a sumptuous Temple and so they made this hermitage of flagges turfes covered with straw then having consulted with their god they resolved to buy of their neighbours stone timber lime in exchange of fish frogges and yong kids and for duckes water-hennes courlieus and divers other kindes of sea fowles All which things they did fish and hunt for in this Lake whereof there is great aboundance They went with these things to the markets of the Townes and Citties of the Tapanecans and of them of Tescuco their neighbours and with pollicie they gathered together by little and little what was necessary for the building of their Cittie so as they built a better Chappell for their idoll of lime and stone and laboured to fill vp a great part of the lake with rubbish This done the idoll spake one night to one of his priests in these tearmes Say vnto the Mexicaines that the Noblemen divide themselves everie one with their kinsfolkes and friends and that they divide themselves into foure principall quarters about the house which you have built for my rest and let every quarter build in his quarter at his pleasure The which was put in execution and those be the foure principall quarters of Mexico which are called at this day S. Iean S. Mary the round S. Paul and S. Sebastian After this the Mexicaines being thus divided into these foure quarters their god commanded them to divide amongest them the gods he should name to them and that they should give notice to every quarter principal of the other foure particall quarters where their gods should be worshipped So as vnder every one of these foure principall quart●rs there were many lesse comprehended according to the number of the idolls which their god commanded them to worship which they called Calpultetco which is as much to say as god of the quarters In this manner the Cittie of Mexico Tenoxtiltan was founded and grew great Of the sedition of those of Tlatelulco and of the first Kings the Mexicaines did choose CHAP. 8. THis division being made as afore-said some olde men and Antients held opinion that in the division they had not respected them as they deserved for this cause they and their kinsfolke did mutine and went to seeke another residence and as they went thorough the lake they found a small peece of ground

of Azcapuzalco desired peace being of a milde disposition yet his subiects did so incense him as his answer was open warre The which being heard by the messenger he did all his King commanded him declaring by this ceremony to give armes and anointing the King with the vnction of the dead that in his Kings behalfe he did defie him Having ended all the King of Azcapuzalco suffering himselfe to be anointed and crowned with feathers giving goodly armes in recompence to the messenger wishing him not to returne by the pallace gate whereas many attended to cut him in peeces but to go out secretly by a little false posterne that was open in one of the courts of the Pallace This yong man did so and turning by secret waies got away in safetie in sight of the guards and there defied them saying Tapanecans and Azcapuzalcans you do your office ill vnderstand you shall all die and not one Tapanecan shall remaine alive In the meane time the guardes fell vpon him where he behaved him selfe so valiantly that hee ●lew some of them and seeing many more of them come running hee retyred himselfe gallantly to the Cittie where he brought newes that warre was proclaimed with the Tapanecans and that hee had defied their King Of the battell the Mexicaines gave to the Tapanecans and of the vi●torie they obtained CHAP. 13. THe defie being knowne to the Commons of Mexico they came to the king according to their accustomed cowardise demaunding leave to departe the Citty holding their raigne certaine The king didde comfort and incourage them promising to give them libertie if they vanquished their enemies willing them not to feare The people replied And if we be vanquished what shall we doe If we be overcome aunswered the king we will be bound presently to yeeld our selves into your hands to suffer death eate our flesh in your dishes and be revenged of vs. It shall be so then saide they if you loose the victorie and if you obtaine the victorie we do presently offer our selves to be your Tributaries to labour in your houses to sowe your ground to carrie your armes and baggage when you goe to the warres for ever wee and our descendants after vs. These accordes made betwixt the people and the nobilitie which they did after fully performe eyther willingly or by constraint as they had promised the king namd for his captain generall Tlacaellec the whole campe was put in order and into squadrons giving the places of captaines to the most valiant of his kinsfolkes and friends then did hee make them a goodly speech whereby he did greatly incorage them being now wel prepared charging all men to obey the commaundement of the Generall whome he had appoynted he divided his men into two partes commanding the most valiant and hardie to give the first charge with him that all the rest should remaine with the king Izcoalt vn●il they should see the first assaile their enemies Marching then in order they were discovered by them of Azcapuzalco who presently came furiously foorth the citty carrying great riches of gold silver and armes of great value as those which had the empire of all that country IZcoalt gave the signall to battaile with a little drumme he carried on his shoulders and presently they raised a general showt crying Mexico Mexico they charged the Tapanecans and although they were farre more in number yet did they defeate them and force them to retire into their Cittie then advaunced they which remained behinde crying Tlacaellec victorie victorie all sodainely entred the Citty where by the Kings commandement they pardoned not any man no not olde men women nor children for they slew them all and spoyled the Citty being very rich And not content heerewith they followed them that fled and were retired into the craggy rocks of the Sierres or neere mountaines striking and making a great slaughter of them The Tapanecans being retired to a mountaine cast downe their armes demaunding their lives and offering to serve the Mexicans to give them lands and gardins stone lime and timber and to hold them alwayes for their Lordes Vpon this condition Tlacaell●c retired his men and ceased the battell graunting them their lives vpon the former conditions which they did solemnely sweare Then they return●d to AzcapuZalco and so with their rich and victorious spoiles to the cittie of Mexico The day following the king assembled the nobilitie and the people to whom he laid open the accord the Commons had made demaunding of them if they were content to persist therin the Commons made answer that they had promised and they had well deserved it and therfore they were content to serve them perpetually Wherevpon they tooke an othe which since they have kept without contradiction This done IZcoalt returned to Azcapuzalco by the advise of his counsell he divided all the lands goods of the conquered among the conquerours the chiefest part fell to the King then to Tlacaellec and after to the rest of the Nobles as they best deserved in the battell They also gave land to some plebeians having behaved themselves valiantly to others they distributed the pillage making small account of them as of cowardes They appointed lands in common for the quarters of Mexico to every one his part for the service and sacrifices of their gods This was the order which after they alwayes kept in the division of the lands and spoyles of those they had vanquished and subdewed By this meanes they of AzcapuZalco remained so poore as they had no lands left them to labor and which was worse they tooke their king from them all power to chuse any other then him of Mexico Of the warre and victory the Mexicans had against the Cittie of Cuyoacan CHAP. 14. ALthough the chiefe Cittie of the Tapanecans was that of AzcapuZalco yet had they others with their private Lordes as T●cuba and Cuyoacan These seeing the storme passed would gladly that they of Azcapuzalco had renewed the warre against the Mexicans and seeing them danted as a nation wholy broken and defeated they of Cuyoacan resolved to make warre by themselves to the which they laboured to draw the other neighbor nations who would not stirre nor quarrell with the Mexicans In the meane time the hatred and malice increasing they of Cuyoacan beganne to ill intreate the women that went to their markets mocking at them and doing the like to the men over whom they had power for which cause the king of Mexico defended that none of his should goe to Cuyoacan and that they should receive none of them into Mexico the which made them of Cuyoacan resolve wholy to warre but first they would provoke them by some shamefull scorne which was that having invited them to one of their solemne feasts after they had made them a goodly banquet and feasted them with a great daunce after their manner they sent them for their fruite womens apparell forcing them to put it on and so to returne home

The first of his Campe that advanced himselfe to the combate was the King himselfe defying his ennemies from whome hee made shewe to fly when they charged him vntill he had drawne them into an ambuscadoe where many souldiers lay hidden vnder straw who suddenly issued forth and they which fled turned head so as they of Tiquantepec remained in the midst of them whom they charged furiously making a great slaughter of them and following their victory they razed their citty and temple punishing all their neighbours rigorously Then went they on farther and without any stay conquered to Guatulco the which is a port at this day well knowne in the South sea Axayaca returned to Mexico with great and rich spoiles where he was honourably crowned with sumptuous and stately preparation of sacrifices tributes and other things whither many came to see his coronation The Kings of Mexico received the crowne from the hands of the King of Tescuco who had the preheminence He made many other enterprises where he obtained great victories being alwaies the first to leade the army and to charge the enemy by the which hee purchased the name of a most valiant captaine not content to subdue strangers he also suppressed his subiects which had rebelled which never any of his predecessours ever could doe or durst attempt We have already shewed how some seditious of Mexico had divided themselves from that common-weale and built a cittie neare vnto them which they called Tlatelulco whereas now saint Iaques is These being revolted held a faction aparte and encreased and multiplied much refusing to acknowledge the kings of Mexico nor to yeeld them obedience The king Axayaca sent to advise them not to live divided but being of one bloud and one people to ioyne together and acknowledge the king of Mexico wherevpon the Lorde of Tlatelulco made an aunswere full of pride and disdaine defieng the king of Mexico to single combate with himselfe and presently mustred his men commaunding some of them to hide themselves in the weeds of the Lake and the better to deceive the Mexicans he commaunded them to take the shapes of ravens geese and other beasts as frogs and such like supposing by this meanes to surprise the Mexicans as they should passe by the waies and cawsies of the Lake Having knowledge of this defie and of his adversaries policie he divided his army giving a part to his generall the sonne of Tlacaellec commaunding him to charge this ambuscadoe in the Lake and he with the rest of his people by an vnfrequented way went and incamped before Tlatelulco Presently hee called him who had defied him to performe his promise and as the two Lordes of Mexico and Tlatelulco advaunced they commaunded their subiects not to moove vntill they had seene who should be conquerour which was done and presently the two Lordes incountered valiantly where having fought long in the end the Lorde of Tlatelulco was forced to turne his backe being vnable to indure the furious charge of the king of Mexico Those of Tlatelulco seeing their captaine flie fainted fled likewise but the Mexicans following them at the heeles charged them furiously yet the Lord of Tlatelulco escaped not the hands of Axayaca for thinking to save himselfe he fled to the toppe of the Temple but Axayaca folowed him so neere as he seised on him with great force and threw him from the toppe to the bottome and after set fire on the Temple and the cittie Whilest this passed at Tlatelulco the Mexicane generall was very hote in the revenge of those that pretended to defeate him by pollicie after he had forced them to yeelde and to crie for mercy the Generall sayde he would not pardon them vntil they had first performed the offices of those figures they represented and therfore he would have them crie like frogges and ravens every one according to the figure which he had vndertaken else they had no composition which thing he did to mocke them with their owne policie Feare and necessitie be perfect teachers so as they did sing and crie with all the differences of voyces that were commaunded them to save their lives although they were much grieved at the sport their enimies made at them They say that vnto this day the Mexicans vse to ieast at the Tlatelulcans which they beare impatiently when they putte them in minde of this singing and crying of beasts King Axayaca tooke pleasure at this scorne and disgrace and presently after they retourned to Mexico with great ioy This King was esteemed for one of the best that had commaunded in Mexico Hee raigned eleaven yeares and one succeeded that was much inferiour vnto him in valour and vertue Of the deedes of Autzol the eight King of Mexico CHAP. 19. AMong the foure Electors that had power to chuse whome they pleased to be king there was one indued with many perfections named Autzol This man was chosen by the rest and this election was very pleasing to all the people for besides that he was valiant all held him curteous and affable to every man which is one of the chiefe qualities required in them that commaund to purchase love and respect To celebrate the feast of his coronation hee resolved to make a voyage and to punish the pride of those of Quaxulatlan a very rich and plentifull province and at this day the chiefe of new Spaine They had robbed his officers and stewards that carried the tribute to Mexico and therwithall were rebelled There was great difficulty to reduce this Nation to obedience lying in such sort as an arme of the sea stopt the Mexicans passage to passe the which AutZol with a strange device and industry caused an Iland to be made in the water of faggots earth and other matter by meanes whereof both hee and his men might passe to the enemy where giving them battell he conquered them and punished them at his pleasure Then returned hee vnto Mexico in triumph and with great riches to bee crowned King according to their custome Autzol extended the limites of his kingdome farre by many conquests even vnto Guatimalla which is three hundred leagues from Mexico He was no lesse liberall than valiant for whenas the tributes arrived which as I have saide came in great aboundaunce hee went foorth of his pallace gathering together all the people into one place then commaunded he to bring all the tributes which hee divided to those that had neede To the poore hee gave stuffes to make apparrell and meate and whatsoever they had neede of in great aboundaunce and things of value as golde silver iewels and feathers were divided amongest the Captaines souldiers and servants of his house according to every mans merite This AutZol was likewise a great polititian hee pulled downe the houses ill built and built others very sumptuous It seemed vnto him that the city of Mexico had too litle water and that the Lake was very muddy and therefore hee resolved to let in a great course