Note 26 — INTRODUCTION.
Reading edition
Historia del Nuovo Mondo, fol. 103 (Venetia, 1565). Benzoni gives a wood cut exhibiting the dances, but it is not instructive. Another traveler, François Coreal, claimed to have visited Nicaragua about 1680, and also describes the native dances, but in words so similar to Benzoni that it is an evident plagiarism.—Relation des Voyages de François Coreal aux Indes Occidentales, Tome I, p. 88 (Amsterdam, 1722).