Note 7 — INTRODUCTION.
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The careless statement of the historian Herrera, that it was only the Chorotegans who had such books, can be corrected from his own volumes, and also from the explicit words of Oviedo and Gomara. Compare Herrera, Dec. III, Lib. IV, cap. VII, with Oviedo, Hist. de las Indias, Lib. XLII, cap. I, and Gomara, Hist. de las Indias, cap. 202.