Texcoco
A city on the eastern shore of the lake around Mexico-Tenochtitlan.
Today: Texcoco, Mexico
The Mexica Embassy and the Smallpox in Michoacán
Purépecha elders and a Franciscan friar, Relación de Michoacán (about 1539–1541), on the Mexica embassy of 1520 and the death of the cazonci Zuangua · compiled about 1539–1541 (events of 1520)
Díjoles el cazonci: “pues qué os dijo á la despedida?” Dijeron ellos, “señor, después que le dijimos lo que nos mandaste que fuésemos con sus mensajeros, y que habias enviado tu gente á cuatro partes, que veníamos nosotros delante mientras venia la gente de la guerra, dijimos que veníamos á ver qué gente es esta que es venida por certificarse mejor: díjonos, seáis bien venidos, descansad, mirad aquella sierra, detrás della están estas gentes que han venido en Taxcala: y lleváronnos en unas canoas, y tomamos puerto en Tezcuco, y sobimos encima un monte, y desde allí nos mostraron un campo largo y llano donde estaban,
The cazonci said to them, “And what did he say to you when you left?” They said, “Lord, we told him what you had ordered us: that we should go with his messengers, and that you had sent your people out in four directions. We said we had come ahead while the warriors were on their way, to see for ourselves what kind of people these newcomers were. He said to us, ‘Welcome. Rest. Look at that range of mountains. Behind it are these people who have come into Taxcala.’ Then they took us in canoes, and we landed at Tezcuco. We climbed to the top of a hill, and from there they showed us a long, level plain where the strangers were.
The Smallpox in Mexico, 1520
Bernardino de Sahagún and his Nahua informants, History of the Conquest of Mexico (Book XII of the General History of the Things of New Spain), edited by Carlos María de Bustamante (1829) · compiled from the 1550s to the 1570s (events of 1520–1521)
En acabándose esta pestilencia en México, vinieron los Españoles que ya estaban en Tezcuco y dejaron la laguna, y vinieron por Cuauhtitlan, hasta Tlacupan, y allí se repartieron en capitanías, y se pusieron en diversas estancias.
As this pestilence was ending in Mexico, the Spaniards, who were already in Tezcuco, came. They left the lake to one side and came by way of Cuauhtitlan as far as Tlacupan. There they divided into companies and took up different positions.