1st. A place of _Humiliation_ and a place of _Grottoes_. It would seem at this place they were much afflicted and humbled, but in what manner is not related; and also at this place, from the term _grottoes_, that it was a place of caverns and dens, probably where they at first hid and dwelt, till they built a town and cleared the ground. Here they built the places which they called Tocalco and Oztatan. 2d journey. They stopped at a place of _fruit-trees_; probably meaning, as it was further south, a place where nature was abundant in nuts, grapes, and wild fruit-trees. Here they built a mound or tumulus; and, in their language, it is called a Teocali. 3d journey; when they stopped at a place of _herbs_, with _broad leaves_; probably meaning a place where many succulent plants grew, denoting a good soil, which invited them to pitch their tents here. 4th journey; when they came to a place of _human bones_; where they, either during their stay, had battles with each other, or with some enemy; or they may have found them already there, the relics of other nations before them; for, according to Humboldt, this migration of the Aztecas took place A. D. 778; so that other nations certainly had preceded them, also from the north. 5th journey; they came to a place of _eagles_. 6th journey; to a place of _precious stones_ and _minerals_. 7th journey; to a place of _spinning_, where they manufactured clothing of cotton, barks, or of something proper for clothing of some sort, and mats of rushes and feathers. 8th journey; they came to another place of eagles, called the Eagle Mountain: or, in their own language, _Quauktli Tepec_: _Tepec_, says Humboldt, in the Turkish language, is the word for mountain; which two words are so near alike, _tepec_, and _tepe_, that it would seem almost an Arab word, or a word used by the Turks. 9th journey; when they came to a place of walls, and the seven grottoes; which shows the place had been inhabited before, and these seven grottoes were either caves in the earth, or were made in the side of some mountain, by those who had preceded them. 10th journey; when they came to a place of thistles, sand, and vultures. 11th journey; when they came to a place of _Obsidian mirrors_, which is much the same with that of ising-glass, scientifically called mica membranacea. This mineral substance is frequently found in the tumuli of the west, and is called by the Mexicans the _shining_ god. The obsidian stone, however, needs polishing before it will answer as a mirror. 12th journey; came to a place of water, probably some lake or beautiful fountains, which invited their residence there, on the account not only of the water, but for fishing and game.