Note 28 — INTRODUCTION.
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Letter to the London Athæneum, 1856, p. 1537. Oviedo also states that the songs sung at certain bailes were of an historical character, intended to recall the important incidents in personal and tribal history, "que les quedan en lugar de historia é memoria de las cosas pasadas."—Historia General de las Indias, Lib. XLII, cap. XI.