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

Note 607 — Chapter XV · NAHUA ARTS AND MANUFACTURES.

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Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., pp. 189-90; Carbajal Espinosa, Hist. Mex., tom. i., pp. 652-3. Method of raising cochineal. Id., pp. 625-6. 'En parcourant le palais de Montézuma les Castillans furent très-étonnés d'y voir des sacs de punaises dont on se servait à teindre et même à badigeonner les murs.' Rosny, in Comité d'Arch. Amér., 1866-7, pp. 15-16. See p. 235 of this volume. They possessed the art of dyeing a fabric without impairing its strength, an art unknown to Europeans of the 18th century. Carli, Cartas, pt ii., pp. 95-7.

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