Note 364 — Chapter X · FOOD OF THE NAHUA NATIONS.
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'Comen en el suelo, y suziamente ... parten los hueuos en vn cabello que se arrancan,' whatever that operation may be. Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 319. 'Es gente que con muy poco mantenimiento vive, y la que menos come de cuantas hay en el mundo.' Relacion de Algunas Cosas, in Icazbalceta, Col. de Doc., tom. i., pp. 379-80. 'Molto sobrj nel mangiare.' Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. i., p. 119. 'It is not lawfull for any that is vnmaried to sit at table with such as are maried, or to eate of the same dish, or drinke of the same cup, and make themselues equall with such as are married.' Peter Martyr, dec. iv., lib. iv. The nobles gave feasts at certain periods of the year for the relief of the poor. Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., p. 270. See also Sahagun, Hist. Gen., tom. iii., lib. x., p. 138; Oviedo, Hist. Gen., tom. iii., p. 535; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., pp. 644-5. Additional references for the whole subject of Nahua food are:—Montanus, Nieuwe Weereld, pp. 74, 80, 247, 251; Dapper, Neue Welt, pp. 83, 91, 278-9, 283; Klemm, Cultur-Geschichte, tom. v., pp. 10-13, 20-6, 102, 104, 180-3, 189, 196; Wappäus, Geog. u. Stat., pp. 44-9; Tylor's Anahuac, pp. 62, 103, 145-6, 173-4; Fossey, Mexique, pp. 44, 215, 485-6; Malte-Brun, Précis de la Géog., tom. vi., p. 456; Monglave, Résumé, pp. 37-8, 261; Delaporte Reisen, tom. x., pp. 257, 268-9; Dillon, Hist. Mex., p. 45; Chevalier, Mex., Ancien y Mod., pp. 15-27; Müller, Amerikanische Urreligionen, p. 538; Boyle's Ride, vol. i., pp. 278-9; Macgregor's Progress of Amer., vol. i., p. 22; Gibbs, in Hist. Mag., vol. vii., p. 99; Hazart, Kirchen-Geschichte, tom. ii., p. 502; Helps' Span. Conq., tom. ii., p. 455; Lafond, Voyages, tom. i., p. 107; Baril, Mexique, pp. 208-9; Bussierre, L'Empire Mex., pp. 164-6, 178, 230; Lenoir, Parallèle, p. 39; Long, Porter, and Tucker's America, p. 162; Soden, Spanier in Peru, tom. ii., pp. 16-17.