Beyond the Tlascalans and to the west, the great Otomie race lived or lives among its mountains.

They are a braver nation than the Aztecs, speaking another language, of a different blood, and made up of many clans.

Sometimes they were subject to the great Aztec empire, sometimes in alliance, and sometimes at open war with it and in close friendship with the Tlascalans.

It was to draw the tie closer between the Aztecs and the Otomies, who were to the inhabitants of Anahuac much what the Scottish clans are to the people of England, that Montezuma took to wife the daughter and sole legitimate issue of their great chief or king.

This lady died in childbirth, and her child was Otomie my wife, hereditary princess of the Otomie.