Note 859 — Chapter XIX · MEDICINE AND FUNERAL RITES AMONG THE NAHUAS.

Hist. Indios, in Icazbalceta, Col. de Doc., tom. i., p. 31; Ritos Antiguos, p. 20, in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix. Ixtlilxochitl, Relaciones, in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., p. 371, states that the sacrifices on the fourth day consisted of five to six slaves, on the tenth of one, on the eightieth of three. 'Le cinquième on sacrifiait plusieurs esclaves, et cette immolation se répétait encore quatre fois, de dix en dix jours.' Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., p. 574. Duran, Hist. Indias, MS., tom. i., cap. xiv., xxxix., mentions a fast of eighty days, at the end of which a statue was made, like one which he states was burned with the corpse, and to this exactly the same ceremonies were paid as to the defunct, the statue being burned with an equally large number of slaves as before. The fullest descriptions of royal obsequies are given in Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., pp. 521-3; Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. iii., pp. 3-11; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., pp. 95-8; Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 309-10; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., pp. 571-4; Duran, Hist. Indias, MS., tom. i., cap. xxxix., xl., tom. ii., cap. xlviii.; Tezozomoc, Crónica Mex., in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., pp. 86-90, 99.