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<p>Smallpox / Plague book 12 pg. 83.&nbsp;

"But before the Spaniards had risen against us, first there came to be prevalent a great sickness, a plague [strike]. ...spread over the people a great destruction of men. At this time this plague prevailed indeed sixty days - sixty day-sings - when it ended, when it diminished; when it was realized, when there was reviving, the plague was already going toward Chalco. [...] at that time the Mexicans, the brave warriors were able to recover from the pestilence.&nbsp;

And when this had happened, then the Spaniards came."

The Florentine Codex, book 12, pg. 83ff, Aztec reports to Fray Bernardino de Sahagun, 1545-1590</p>

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