Note 924 — Chapter XX · GOVERNMENT, SOCIAL CLASSES, PROPERTY, AND LAWS OF THE MAYA NATIONS.
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'Acaesçe que venden los padres á los hijos, é aun cada uno se puede vender á sí proprio, si quiere é por lo que quisiere.' Oviedo, Hist. Gen., tom. iv., pp. 51, 54; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iii., lib. iv., cap. vii.; Squier's Nicaragua, (Ed. 1856.) vol. ii., p. 345. Bienvenida says that in Yucatan as soon as the father dies the strongest of those who remain enslave the others. In Ternaux-Compans, Voy., série i., tom. x., p. 331.