Note 359 — Chapter X · FOOD OF THE NAHUA NATIONS.
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'Oi dezir, que le (for Montezuma) solian guisar carnes de muchachos de poca edad.' Bernal Diaz, Hist. Conq., fol. 68, 35, 37. A slave 'elaborately dressed' was a prominent feature of the banquet. Prescott's Mex., vol. i., p. 155. They ate the arms and legs of the Spaniards captured. Gemelli Careri, in Churchill's Col. Voyages, vol. iv., p. 527. 'They draw so much blood, as in stead of luke warme water may suffice to temper the lumpe, which by the hellish butchers of that art, without any perturbation of the stomacke being sufficiently kneaded, while it is moyst, and soft euen as a potter of the clay, or a wax chandler of wax, so doth this image maker, admitted and chosen to be maister of this damned and cursed worke.' Peter Martyr, dec. v., lib. iv., i. 'Cocian aquella carne con maíz, y daban á cada uno un pedazo de ella en una escudilla ó cajete con su caldo, y su maíz cocida, y llamaban aquella comida tlacatlaolli.' Sahagun, Hist. Gen., tom. i., lib. ii., pp. 89, 14, 84, 93, 97. 'La tenian por cosa, como sagrada, y mas se movian à esto por Religion, que por vicio.' Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., pp. 584-5. See also Albornoz, in Icazbalceta, Col. de Doc., tom. i., p. 488; Zuazo, Carta, in Id., pp. 363, 365; Motolinia, Hist. Indios, in Id., pp. 40-1, 59; Relacion de Algunas Cosas, in Id., p. 398; Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. iii., pp. 282-3; Gand, in Ternaux-Compans, Voy., série i., tom. x., p. 197; Bologne, in Id., p. 215; Duran, Hist. Indias, MS., tom. iii., appendix, cap. iii.; Carbajal, Discurso, p. 60; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., p. 47; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., pp. 502-3, tom. iv., p. 90; Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. 175-6.