Note 839 — Chapter XIX · MEDICINE AND FUNERAL RITES AMONG THE NAHUAS.
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Although Acosta says, 'tañendo tristes flautas y atambores.' Hist. de las Ynd., p. 322; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iii., lib. ii., cap. xviii. 'On faisait deux grandes bannières de papier blanc.' Chaves, Rapport, in Ternaux-Compans, Voy., série ii., tom. v., p. 309.