Note 729 — Chapter XVIII · ARCHITECTURE AND DWELLINGS OF THE NAHUAS.
Reading edition
Tezozomoc, Hist. Mex., tom. i., p. 188, says that chiefs were permitted to erect towers pierced with arrows in the courtyard. Prescott's Mex., vol. ii., p. 120. The houses were often quite surrounded with trees. West-Indische Spieghel, p. 220.