Note 691 — Chapter XVIII · ARCHITECTURE AND DWELLINGS OF THE NAHUAS.
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'Dos puertas, una por do entran y otra por do salen.' Cortés, Cartas, p. 84, which means, no doubt, that passengers had to pass through the fort. He calls the second town along the road Niciaca, and the third Huchilohuchico. Brasseur de Bourbourg states that within the fort was a teocalli dedicated to Toci, on which a beacon blazed all night to guide travelers. Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iv., pp. 209-10. But this is a mistake, for Tezozomoc, Hist. Mex., pt ii., p. 184, his authority for this, says that the beacon was at a hill 'avant d'arriver à Acuchinanco.'