The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . (the Justicer *), by which he is known inhistory. But at last Papantzin, suspecting that all was notright with his daughter, visited the palace of Palpan in thedisguise of a labourer; he found her and listened to the taleof her shame. His wrath knew no bounds, but he was quietedwith the kings promise that the child should be proclaimedheir to the throne, and that, should the queen die, Xochitlwould succeed her as his legitimate consort. It should bementioned that polygamy and con
The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . (the Justicer *), by which he is known inhistory. But at last Papantzin, suspecting that all was notright with his daughter, visited the palace of Palpan in thedisguise of a labourer; he found her and listened to the taleof her shame. His wrath knew no bounds, but he was quietedwith the kings promise that the child should be proclaimedheir to the throne, and that, should the queen die, Xochitlwould succeed her as his legitimate consort. It should bementioned that polygamy and concubinage were strictlyforbidden among the Toltecs of that period ; that the lawswere binding on king and peasant alike ; and this explainswhy Tecpancaltzin was obliged to keep his love for Xochitlsecret, until he was free to proclaim her publicly his queen ;a step which was fraught with endless evils for his country,since after his death the Toltec princes, who were thusdeprived of their hope of succession, broke out into openhostilities. The most powerful of these and nearest to * Veytia, tome i. chap. INDIAN KING, DRAWN FROM CLAVIGERO, RAMIREZ MS., AND FATHER DURAN. Palpan and the Toltecs. 125 the throne was Huehuetzin;* with him were banded thecaciques of the northern provinces beyond JaHsco and thosebordering on the Atlantic Ocean, when after years of warfare,followed by calamitous inundations, tempests, droughts, famine,and pestilence (1097), the Toltecs, greatly reduced in numbers,dispersed; some directing their march south (the Toluca andCuernavaca branch), others going north (the Tula and Teoti-huacan branch) founded establishments at Tehuantepec, Guate-mala, Goatzacoalco, Tabasco, and Campeche; whilst a fewremained at Cholula and IxtlilxochitlJ places thisevent in 1008. Sixteen hundred are said to have settled atColhuacan, intermarried with Chichemec caciques, and foundedthe family from which the kings of Texcuco were writes tha
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