Euery number is simple, vntil you come to sixe, and then they count, six and one, sixe and two, sixe and thrée. Ten is a number by himselfe, then you must counte ten and one, tenne and two, tenne and thrée, tenne and foure, tenne and fiue. Then you count ten fiue and one, tenne fiue and two, ten fiue and thrée. Twenty goeth by himselfe, and al the greater numbers. The Mexican yeare. The _Mexicans_ yeare is thrée hundered sixtie dayes, for they haue in their yere eightéene monethes, and euery moneth contayneth twentie dayes. They haue other fiue odde dayes, whiche goeth by themselues, in the which they vsed to celebrate greate feastes of cruell and bloudy sacrifice, with much deuotion. And reconing after this sort, they could not choose but erre, for they could not make equal the punctuall course of the Sunne. Yea the Christian yere is not perfit, although we haue learned Astronomers. But yet these simple _Indians_ wente neare the marke. The names of the moneths. _Tlacaxipeualiztli._ _Tozcuztli._ _Huei Tozeuztli._ _Toxcalt._ _Ecalcoaliztli._ _Tocuilhuicintli._ _Hueitecuilhuitl._ _Miccailhuicintli._ _Veymiccailhuitl._ _Vchpaniztli._ _Pachtli._ _Huei Pachtli._ _Quecholli._ _Panquecaliztli._ _Hatemuztli._ _Tititlh._ _Izcalli._ _Coavitleuac._ The names of dayes. _Cipactli_ A Spade _Hecatl_ Ayre or Winde _Calli_ A House _Cuez Pali_ A Lizart _Coualt_ A Snake _Mizquintli_ Death _Macatl_ A wilde Hart _Tochtli_ A Conny _Atl_ Water _Izcuyntli_ A Dogge _Ocumatli_ An Ape _Malinalli_ A Brome _Acatlh_ A Caue _Ocelotl_ A Tigre _Coautli_ An Egle _Cozcaquahutl_ A Bussard _Olin_ A Temple _Tepatlh_ A Knife _Quiauitl_ Rayne _Xuchitl_ A Rose Althoughe these twentie names serue for the whole yere, and are but the dayes of euery moneth, yet therfore euery moneth beginneth not with _Cipactli_, which is the first name, but as they followe in order, and the fiue odde dayes is the cause thereof. And also bycause theyr wéeke is of thirtéene dayes, which changeth the names, as by example, _Cecipactli_ can go no further thä vnto _Matlactlomeiacatl_, which is thirtéene, and then beginneth an other wéeke: and we do not say _Matlactlinaui Ocelotl_, whiche is the fourtéenth day, but we say _Ceocelotl_ whiche is one, and then recken the other sixe names, vnto twenty. And when al the twentie dayes are ended, begin againe to recken from the first name of the twentie, but not frö one, but from viij. And bicause ye may better vndrestand the matter, here is the example.