In some prouinces where water is scante, they vse to drynke the iuice of these leaues. The fruite thereof called _Nuchtli_, is lyke vnto fygges, and euen so hathe hys little kernels or graynes within, but they are somewhat larger, and crowned lyke vnto a Medler. There are of them of sundrye coloures, some are gréene without, and Carnationlike within, which haue a good tast. Others are yellowe, and others white, and some speckled: the best sort are the white: it is a fruite that will last long. Some of them tasteth of peares, and other some of Grapes: it is a colde and fresh fruite, and best estéemed in the heate of Sommer. The _Spanyardes_ doe more estéeme them than the _Indians_. The more the grounde is laboured where they growe, the fruite is so muche the better. There is yet another kinde of this fruite redde, and that is nothing estéemed, although his tast is not euill, but bycause it dothe coloure and dye the eaters mouth, lippes, and apparell, yea and maketh his vryne looke like pure bloud. Many _Spanyardes_ at their first comming into _India_, and eating this fruite, were in a maze, and at their wittes ende, thinking that all the bloud in their bodyes came out in vryne: yea and manye Phisitions at theyr first comming were of the same beliefe: for it hathe happened, when they haue bin sent for vnto such as haue eaten this fruite, they not knowing the cause, and beholding the vryne, by and by they ministred medicine to staunch bloud: surely a thing to laugh at, to sée the Phisitions so deceyued. Of this fruite _Nuchtli_ and _Tetl_, which is a stone, is compounded _Tenuchtlitan_. When this Citie was begunne to bée founded, it was placed néere vnto a great stone that stoode in the middest of the lake, at the foote whereof grewe one of these _Nopal_ trées, and therefore _Mexico_ giueth for armes and deuise the foote of a _Nopal_ trée springing from a stone, according to the Cities name. Others do affirme, that this Citie hathe the name of his first founder, called _Tenuch_, béeyng the seconde sonne of _Iztacmixcoatl_, whose sonnes and descendentes did first inhabite thys lande of _Ananac_, called nowe newe _Spayne_. Howsoeuer the opinions are, certayne it is that the scituation is called _Tenuchtlitan_, and the dwellers there _Tenuchca Mexico_. _Mexico_ is as much to say, as a spring or fountayne, according to the propertie of the vowell and spéech. Others doe affirme, that _Mexico_ hathe his name of a more auntiente time, whose firste founders were called _Mexiti_, for vnto this day the _Indian_ dwellers in one strete of this citie are called of _Mexica_. The _Mexiti_ tooke name of their principallest Idoll called _Mexitli_, who was in as greate veneration as _Vitzilopuchtli_, God of the warre.