022_College lectures; Page 19

who had been chosen by their own
body in the preceding reign, filled
the office of electors, to whom were
added, with merely an honorary rank
however, the two royal allies of
Tepancan and Tlacopan. The soveriegn
was selected from the brothers of the
deceased prince, or in default of
these, from his nephews. Thus the
election was always restricted to
the same family.

The candidate must have
distinguished himself in war, even
though a member of the priesthood,
The new [?] was intstalled with
great parade of religious ceremony. But
he must furnish captives to grace his
entrance and to furnish victims
for the dark and bloody rites
which started the Aztic superstition