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He [Viceroy Mendoza] writes to his brother don Diego that the foundation of Temistitan occurred in this manner: At the time of the war between the Mexicans and the Tlaxcalans came from the north in direction to the Province of Panuco, a captain named Orchilobos together with four hundred well-trained men with gold and silver weapons. They invervened in the war in aide of the Mexicans and by their effort and labor they were victorious. And, realizing that the appropriate place for settling down was in a nearby lake, which had a thin entrance of small mounds that lead to a small island or rock that was almost at the center of the lake, he bagan to inhabit the place with his people. He thus made a small stone tower that afterwards became Orchilobos’s Templo Mayor, consecrated to his name, and thenceforth little by little he dominated and subjugated the neighboring towns until he became lord of Mexico, and in nearby provinces he sent settlers until the population grew to become a city. (4:103-4)