When he had reached a point in the province of Guazacoalco, which is situated to the southeast of Cholula, he called the four youths to him, and told them they should return to their city; that he had to go further; but that they should go back and say that at some future day white and bearded men like himself would come from the east, who would possess the land.[1] [Footnote 1: For this version of the myth, see Mendieta, _Historia Eclesiastica Indiana_, Lib.

ii, caps, v and x.] Thus he disappeared, no one knew whither.

But another legend said that he died there, by the seashore, and they burned his body.

Of this event some particulars are given by Ixtlilxochitl, as follows:[1]-- [Footnote 1: Ixtlilxochitl, _Relaciones Historicas_, p.

388, in Kingsborough, vol.ix.] Quetzalcoatl, surnamed Topiltzin, was lord of Tula.