[III-45] 'Una _Historia de los Reynos de Culhuàcan, y Mexico_, en lengua _Nahuatl_, y papel Europèo de Autor Anonymo, y tiene añadida una _Breve Relacion de los Dioses, y Ritos de la Gentilidad_ en lengua Castellana, etc. Està todo copiado de letra de Don Fernando de Alba y le falta la primera foja.' _Boturini_, _Catálogo_, pp. 17-18. 'M. Aubin, qui possède les copies faites par Gama et Pichardo, ajoute au sujet de ce document: "Cette histoire, composée en 1563 et en 1579, par un écrivain de Quauhtitlan et non par Fernando de Alba (Ixtlilxochitl), comme l'a cru Pichardo, n'est guère moins précieuse que les précédentes (in Brasseur's list), et remonte, année par année, _au moins_ jusqu'à l'an 751 de J. C. A la suite de ces annales se trouve l'histoire anonyme (l'Histoire des soleils), d'où Gama a extrait le texte mexicain de la tradition sur les soleils."' _Brasseur de Bourbourg_, _Hist. Nat. Civ._, tom. i., p. lxxix.; _Id._, _Popol Vuh_, p. xi.
[III-46] _Chichime_ or 'dogs,' a transformation which may not improbably have something to do with the origin of the name Chichimecs, a name applied to so many tribes in all parts of the country. The _Codex Chimalpopoca_, however, speaks also of a transformation into monkeys as a result of a great hurricane. _Popol Vuh_, p. lxxx.
[III-47] Or, as Brasseur suggests, adopting the customs of the people in order to obtain the entrée of Tonacatepetl and the secret of their agriculture.
[III-48] Molina, _Vocabulario_, translates the name, 'red ant.'
[III-49] _Codex Chimalpopoca_, in _Brasseur de Bourbourg_, _Hist. Nat. Civ._, tom. i., pp. 53-9, 70-1.
[III-51] The Cuicatecs, Triquis, Chinantecs, Mazatecs, Chatinos, Papabucos, Soltecos, Chontales, and Cohuixcas, in the south-western regions, are regarded by Orozco y Berra as fragments of pre-Toltec nations. _Geografía_, pp. 121, 126. Prichard, _Nat. Hist. Man_, vol. ii., p. 512, adds the Coras, Tepanecs, and Tarascos. The Codices Vaticanus and Tellerianus, give the names of the tribes that migrated from the seven caves, as Olmecs, Xicalancas, Chichimecs, Nonohualcas, Michinacas, Couixcas, Totonacs, and Cuextecas. The Nonohualcas and Xicalancas, however, were probably the same, and we shall see later that Chichimecs was probably never a tribal name at all. _Gallatin_, in _Amer. Ethno. Soc., Transact._, vol. i., p. 135.