General Remarks -- the Cihuacoatl, or Supreme Judge -- the Court of the Tlacatecatl -- Jurisdiction of the Tecuhtlis -- the Centectlapixques and Topillis -- Law Courts and Judges of Tezcuco -- Eighty-Day Council -- Tribunal of the King -- Court Proceedings -- Lawyers -- Witnesses -- Remuneration of Judges -- Justice of King Nezahualpilli -- He orders his Son's Execution -- Montezuma and the Farmer -- Jails -- Laws against Theft, Murder, Treason, Kidnapping, Drunkenness, Witchcraft, Adultery, Incest, Sodomy, Fornication, and other Crimes -- Story of Nezahualcoyotl and the Boy 433 CHAPTER XV. NAHUA ARTS AND MANUFACTURES. Metals Used and Manner of Obtaining Them -- Working of Gold and Silver -- Wonderful Skill in Imitating Gilding and Plating -- Working in Stone -- Lapidary Work -- Wood Carving -- Manufacture of Pottery -- Various Kinds of Cloth -- Manufacture of Paper and Leather -- Preparation of Dyes and Paints -- The Art of Painting -- Feather Mosaic Work -- Leaf-Mats -- Manner of Kindling Fire -- Torches -- Soap -- Council of Arts in Tezcuco -- Oratory and Poetry -- Nezahualcoyotl's Odes on the Mutability of Life, and the Tyrant Tezozomoc -- Aztec Arithmetical System 473 CHAPTER XVI. THE AZTEC CALENDAR. Astronomical Knowledge of the Aztecs -- Contradictions of Authors respecting the Calendar -- Value of the Researches of Various Writers -- The First Regular Calendar -- The Mexican Cycle -- The Civil Year -- The Aztec Months -- Names of the Days and their Signification -- The Commencement of the Aztec Year -- The Ritual Calendar -- Gama's Arrangement of the Months -- The Calendar-Stone -- The Four Destructions of the World -- The Calendar of Michoacan -- Reckoning of the Zapotecs 502 CHAPTER XVII. THE AZTEC PICTURE-WRITING. Hieroglyphic Records -- The Native Books -- Authorities -- Destruction of the Native Archives by Zumárraga and his Confrères -- Picture-Writings used after the Conquest for Confession and Law-Suits -- Value of the Records -- Documents sent to Spain in the Sixteenth Century -- European Collections -- Lord Kingsborough's Work -- Picture-Writings retained in Mexico -- Collections of Ixtlilxochitl, Sigüenza, Gemelli Careri, Boturini, Veytia, Leon y Gama, Pichardo, Aubin, and the National Museum of Mexico -- Process of Hieroglyphic Development -- Representative, Symbolic, and Phonetic Picture-Writing -- Origin of Modern Alphabets -- The Aztec System -- Specimen from the Codex Mendoza -- Specimen from Gemelli Careri -- Specimen from the Boturini Collection -- Probable future Success of Interpreters -- The Nepohualtzitzin 523