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66 lowed by Ixtlilxochitl, in the first years of the fifteenth century, probably in 1406.

[A. D. 1389.] Acamapichtli, Kng of the Mexicans, died in 1389, and the throne was given to the brave Huitzilihuitl



He was a young man and unmarried, and some of the nobles went to the King of the Tepanecs, their master, and humbly besought him to give them his daughter to be married to their king.

The following speech, put in their