Note 21 — Chapter III · GOVERNMENT OF THE NAHUA NATIONS.
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'Que antes de Reinar avia investigado los nueve dobleces de el Cielo.' Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. i., p. 194. Ortega, in Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. iii., p. 306, writes: 'Quel el que siendo particular supo penetrar los secretos del cielo;' 'that he who, being a private individual, could penetrate the secrets of heaven,' which appears more intelligible.