cosas que llevaban encomendadas para venderlas de los mercaderes viejos, que se llamaban pochtecatlatoque, que ellos no iban en este viaje, sino que encomendaban sus mercaderías para que las vendiesen. Y después se partían con ellos la ganancia cuando volvían. También encomendaban algunas mujeres tratantes sus mercaderías para que hiciesen lo mismo.
\nTodos juntos se juntaban en aquella casa, y disponían sus cargas, y esperaban allí hasta que partiesen. En su presencia también juntamente juntaban la provisión para el camino, como pinolli y otras cosas; y todo lo juntaban dentro de la casa, de noche. Teniendo ya todo junto lo que se había de cargar, hacían sus cargas en los cacaxtles y daban a cada uno destos que tenían alquilados para que las llevasen a cuestas la carga que había de llevar. Y de tal manera las compasaban, que no eran muy pesadas y llevaban igual peso. Esto se hacía por la orden que daba el que iba por capitán. A los que nuevamente iban a deprender aquel oficio, que todos eran mancebillos, no los cargaban con cargas, sino mandábanlos que llevasen lo que se había de beber, como pinolli, y las xícaras y los revolvedores, que eran por la mayor parte hechos de conchas de tortuga. Habiendo
\n","citation_key":"citation_lopez_spanish_transcription","citation":{"en":["Spanish by López Austin & García Quintana 2000"],"es":["Español por López Austin & García Quintana 2000"]}},{"id":"3efa49a0-d5d0-4289-8338-99adb8423172","choice":{"en":["Spanish-to-English by García Garagarza 2023"],"es":["Español-al-inglés por García Garagarza 2023"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["spanish translation"],"es":["traducción al español"]},"column":"spanish","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(García Garagarza 2023)","markdown":"along with the items that the older merchants, who were called _pochtecatlatoque_, would entrust them to sell, for they would not be going with them on this journey but would entrust their wares to them to sell. Afterward, upon their return, they would divide the profits with them. Some women traders would also entrust them with their wares, for them to do the same thing.\n\nThey would all gather together in that house, prepare their loads, and wait there until the moment of their departure. They would also gather together before them the provisions for the road, such as _pinolli_ and other things. And they would collect everything together inside the house, at night. Once everything that they would be carrying had been collected, they would set their loads in the _cacaxtles_[^28] and give one of these to each person whom they had hired to carry the assigned loads on their backs. And they would calculate these [loads] in such a way that they were not too heavy and all weighed the same. This was done according to the orders given by the one who was going along as captain. They would not burden with loads those who were just beginning to learn that business—for they were all young boys—but instead they would order them to carry the drinking provisions, such as _pinolli_, _jícaras_, and whisks, which were for the most part made of turtle shell.\n\nAt nighttime, having \n\n\n[^28]: _cacaxtles_: plural Hispanicized form of the Nahuatl word _cacaxtli_ (carrying frame).","html":"along with the items that the older merchants, who were called pochtecatlatoque, would entrust them to sell, for they would not be going with them on this journey but would entrust their wares to them to sell. Afterward, upon their return, they would divide the profits with them. Some women traders would also entrust them with their wares, for them to do the same thing.
\nThey would all gather together in that house, prepare their loads, and wait there until the moment of their departure. They would also gather together before them the provisions for the road, such as pinolli and other things. And they would collect everything together inside the house, at night. Once everything that they would be carrying had been collected, they would set their loads in the cacaxtles1 and give one of these to each person whom they had hired to carry the assigned loads on their backs. And they would calculate these [loads] in such a way that they were not too heavy and all weighed the same. This was done according to the orders given by the one who was going along as captain. They would not burden with loads those who were just beginning to learn that business—for they were all young boys—but instead they would order them to carry the drinking provisions, such as pinolli, jícaras, and whisks, which were for the most part made of turtle shell.
\nAt nighttime, having
\ncacaxtles: plural Hispanicized form of the Nahuatl word cacaxtli (carrying frame).↩
[is]quich tetlatquitilli, in imasca in puchtecatlatoque: ioan in intlatqui, in puchtecacihoa, nononqua mochichioa, uel imispan mochintin, oncan mocentlalitoque, vncan cenquiztoque: quichisticate in quenman onpeoazque. Auh mochi quinechicooa: in itacatl, in pinolli: auh quicaltema, amo cemilhuitl, çan ioaltica.
\nJn icoac ocenquiz in ie mochi tlamamalli: niman ie ic quichichioa cacastica quiquequetza in tlaqueoaltin quimamazque, achi etic, çan quipantia. Auh in iehoanti quimamazque in puchteca: amo cenca ietic çan tlaiehecolli, çam mochiuhqui. Auh no ic monaoatia in tachcauhchiuhtiazque in quiiacanazque tlamamalli. Auh in quin iopa iazque: in telpochtepitoton aiatle quinmamaltia: çan oc iehoatl in atlioaloni, quinmamaltia, in aiotectli.
\nAuh in icoac otlatecpanque, in incalitic, in iuh uiloaz vtlica: in onioac in ie tlapoiaoa, niman ie ic tlaacaltemalo, in acalli aço vntetl, aço etetl inic iauh tlatquitl.
\nJn ie iuhq̄
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"459f9010-b233-408b-a523-31810ab251a9","choice":{"en":["Nahuatl-to-English by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl-al-inglés por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["nahuatl translation"],"es":["traducción al náhuatl"]},"column":"nahuatl","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982)","markdown":"all the consignments, the possessions of the principal merchants, and the goods of the merchant women, were arranged separately. Right before them all, there they were gathered, there they were assembled, waiting until they were to start. And they assembled all the travel rations, the *pinole*. And they arranged things in the house not by day but at night.\n\nAnd when they had assembled indeed all the loads, they thereupon arranged them on the carrying frames; they set one each on the hired burden-carriers[^26] to carry on their backs: not very heavy; they put on only a limited amount. And the burden-carrying merchants bore no great weight, only a measured amount. All were thus [laden]. And also this was as those who went as leaders, who guided the train of bearers, had ordered.[^27] But [as for] those who were going for the first time, the small boys, they loaded nothing on their backs. They placed upon their backs only the drinking vessels, the gourds.[^28]\n\nAnd when things had been arranged in order in their house, when all were about to go on the road, when darkness had fallen, when it was already night, thereupon all the boats were filled; perhaps two or three boats in which the goods went.\n\nWhen \n\n\n\n\n[^26]: Corresponding Spanish text: *”hazian ms cargas en los cacaxtles*:* y dauan a cada uno destos, que tenjan alqujlados, para que las lleuasen a cuestas, la carga que avia de lleuar*:* y de tal manera las compasauan, que no eran muy pesadas, y lleuauan igual peso*:* esto se hazia, por la orden que daua, el que yba por capitan.”*\n\n\n[^27]: The *Acad. Hist. MS* has *momana* in place of *monaoatia*.\n\n\n[^28]: Corresponding Spanish text: *”mãdauãlos, que lleuassen lo que se auja de beuer, como pinolli, y las xicaras, y los reboluedores, que eran por la mayor parte, hechos de conchas de tortuga.”*","html":"all the consignments, the possessions of the principal merchants, and the goods of the merchant women, were arranged separately. Right before them all, there they were gathered, there they were assembled, waiting until they were to start. And they assembled all the travel rations, the pinole. And they arranged things in the house not by day but at night.
\nAnd when they had assembled indeed all the loads, they thereupon arranged them on the carrying frames; they set one each on the hired burden-carriers1 to carry on their backs: not very heavy; they put on only a limited amount. And the burden-carrying merchants bore no great weight, only a measured amount. All were thus [laden]. And also this was as those who went as leaders, who guided the train of bearers, had ordered.2 But [as for] those who were going for the first time, the small boys, they loaded nothing on their backs. They placed upon their backs only the drinking vessels, the gourds.3
\nAnd when things had been arranged in order in their house, when all were about to go on the road, when darkness had fallen, when it was already night, thereupon all the boats were filled; perhaps two or three boats in which the goods went.
\nWhen
\nCorresponding Spanish text: ”hazian ms cargas en los cacaxtles:* y dauan a cada uno destos, que tenjan alqujlados, para que las lleuasen a cuestas, la carga que avia de lleuar: y de tal manera las compasauan, que no eran muy pesadas, y lleuauan igual peso: esto se hazia, por la orden que daua, el que yba por capitan.”*↩
The Acad. Hist. MS has momana in place of monaoatia.↩
Corresponding Spanish text: ”mãdauãlos, que lleuassen lo que se auja de beuer, como pinolli, y las xicaras, y los reboluedores, que eran por la mayor parte, hechos de conchas de tortuga.”↩