VI.
Texcuco [53]-61
The Golden Age, [53]—The government, [53]—Council of Music, [53]—Texcucan literature, [54]—Lost treasures, [54]—A royal poet, [55]—The Laughing Hill, [56]—Artificial lakes, [56]—Ruins of Tezcotzinco, [56]—Baths of Montezuma, [57]—A blot on Nezahualcoyotl's fame, [57]; a Mexican Haroun al Raschid, [58]; his religion, [59]—From anarchy to civilization, [59]—Nezahualpilli, [59]—Decline of Texcuco, [60]—A Texcucan historian, [60]—Legend or fact? [61].
VII.
Michoacan [62]-69
The Land of Fish, [62]—Lonely lakes, [62]—Patzcuaro, [63]—The Place of Delights, [64]—The first settlers, [64]—Iré Titatacamé, [65]—A dusky princess, [65]—Tixiacurí, the first king of Michoacan, [66]—The kingdom divided, [66]—Tzintzuntzan, [67]—The glorious reign of Zovanga, [67]—A city of birds, [67]—Fruitless excavations, [68]—The Tarascans, [68].
VIII.
Mayas [70]-82
The first wave of migration, [70]—Traces of Mayas in Yucatan, [70]—A great empire, [71]—Nachan, the town of serpents, [72]; its ruins discovered, [72]—Palace at Palenque, [72]—Lofty chambers and strange bas-reliefs, [73]—The Temple of the Cross, [74]—An emblem of Christian faith, [75]—Meaning of the tablets, [75]—Chichen-Itza, [76]—A religious centre, [77]—Paintings and bas-reliefs, [78]—Chaak Mool, the tiger-chief, [78]—The beautiful Kinich, [78]—Tomb of Chaak Mool, [78]—Paved roads of Yucatan, [79]—Votan and Zamna, [80]—Mayan legends, [80]—Weapons and armor, [81]—War with the Toltecs, [82].