Young folks' history of Mexico (1883) (14597876129)

Identifier: youngfolkshistor01ober (find matches)
Title: Young folks' history of Mexico
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Ober, Frederick A. (Frederick Albion), 1849-1913
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Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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^, tells us only of Aztlanas their place of residence when the great migration com-menced which was to re-populate the country deserted ofthe Toltecs. (A. D. 1160.) Among the Aztecs, who dwelt in Aztlan,was a person of authority named Huitziton, who was desir-ous that his people should leave that country and seekanother. One day, sitting beneath a tree, he heard — orpretended he heard — a little bird, constantly repeating inthe Aztec tongue, tihui, tihui—let us go! let us go!Now, Huitziton took this to be a message from the gods,directing him and his companions to change their place of
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The Aztecs, or Mexicans. 51 residence. In those days people must have paid more atten-tion to the voices of the birds than now, or must have giventheir utterances more significance. Who of us cannot recallsome bird of our^ own land that would give us a similarmessage, if we would but construe it so ? The singularthing about these bird-voices is, that they always speak inthe language of the people they dwell amongst, and seemnot to have an universal language of their own ! Well, this was enough for Huitziton and the deludedpeople who listened to him, and so they packed up whatfew things comprised their household effects, and began totravel. It is thought that all the seven tribes startedtogether, or about the same time, but all had got into thevalley of Mexico and comfortably settled before the Aztecsfinally reached it. It is thought that they crossed the riverColorado near the head of the Gulf of California, andthence went southeastwardly. There are in that part ofMexico the ruins of