Note XIII‑38 — Chapter XIII · THE CONQUEST OF CHIAPAS. 1520-1529.
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It stands, though in a ruined state, to this day. Mazariegos, Mem. Chiapa, 13. The traveller Thomas Gage, who wrote in 1677, remarks that the country of Chiapas 'surpasseth all the rest of America in that one and famous and most populous town of Chiapa of the Indians,' which later he says 'is held to be one of the biggest Indian towns in all America, containing at least 4,000 families.' New Survey, 219, 233.