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The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations, Volume 2

Note 538 — Chapter XIV · NAHUA LAWS AND LAW COURTS.

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Relatione fatta per vn gentil'huomo del Signor Fernando Cortese, in Ramusio, Navigationi, tom. iii., fol. 307; Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. ccxiii.; Vetancvrt, Teatro Mex., pt ii., p. 33; Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. i., p. 106; Mendieta, Hist. Ecles., p. 138; Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. iii., p. 421. Ixtlilxochitl writes that the children and relations of the traitor were enslaved till the fifth generation, and that salt was scattered upon his lands. Hist. Chich., in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., tom. ix., p. 245. 'Il traditore del Re, o dello Stato, era sbranato, ed i suoi parenti, che consapevoli del tradimento non lo aveano per tempo scoperto, erano privati della libertà.' Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., p. 130.

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