Note 977 — Chapter XXI · EDUCATION AND FAMILY MATTERS AMONG THE MAYAS.
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Oviedo asserts that the husband avenged his own honor. The Friar asks: '¿Qué pena le dan al adúltero, que se echa con la muger de otro?' The Indian answers: 'El marido della riñe con él é le da de palos; pero no lo mata.' Hist. Gen., tom. iv., p. 50. Squier, Nicaragua, (Ed. 1856,) vol. ii., p. 343, says that the woman was also severely flogged, but this does not seem to have been the case. See Gomara, Hist. Ind., fol. 263; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iii., lib. iv., cap. vii.; Boyle's Ride, vol. i., p. 273.