Note 844 — Chapter XIX · MEDICINE AND FUNERAL RITES AMONG THE NAHUAS.
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'El (the mode) que estos Chichimecas vsaron, fue quemarlos.' Monarq. Ind., tom. i., pp. 60, 72, 87; Ixtlilxochitl, Relaciones, in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., tom. ix., pp. 369, 388; Id., Hist. Chich., pp. 214, 223, 261-2. Veytia, who introduces some arguments on this point, thinks that Tezozomoc introduced burning, yet he describes ceremonial cremations in the case of several kings before him. Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. iii., pp. 3-4, tom. ii., p. 113; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. i., p. 140, tom. ii., pp. 97-8.