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End of Chimalpopoca.
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upper lip, and his ear-rings, which had once been worn by his famous brother, Huitzilihuitl, he charged him to escape at once from the dominions of Maxtla.
[A. D. 1423.] That night, the unhappy king ended his
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life by hanging himself in his cage by his girdle and thus perished Chimalpopoca, third king of Mexico, in or about the year 1423.
His reign had lasted about thirteen years, during which
