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The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations, Volume 2

Note 966 — Chapter XXI · EDUCATION AND FAMILY MATTERS AMONG THE MAYAS.

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'La noche ántes habia de dormir con la novia uno que tenian por papa.' Andagoya, in Navarrete, Col. de Viages, tom. iii., p. 414; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iii., lib. v., cap. xii. Oviedo perhaps alludes to this custom when he says: 'Muchos hay que quieren más las corrompidas que no las vírgenes.' Hist. Gen., tom. iv., p. 50; Malte-Brun, Précis de la Géog., tom. vi., p. 472.

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