Note 1086 — Chapter XXIII · FOOD, DRESS, COMMERCE, AND WAR CUSTOMS OF THE MAYAS.
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The following are my authorities on the Maya commerce, many references to simple mentions of articles bought and sold and to the use of cacao as money being omitted. Ximenez, Hist. Ind. Guat., p. 203; Las Casas, in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. viii., pp. 137, 147; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec i., lib. v., cap. v., dec. iii., lib. iv., cap. vii., lib. v., cap. xii., lib. vii., cap. ix., dec. iv., lib. viii., cap. iii., ix.; Landa, Relacion, pp. 32, 128-30, 156-8; Cogolludo, Hist. Yuc., pp. 181, 183; Villagutierre, Hist. Conq. Itza, p. 311; Oviedo, Hist. Gen., tom. i., p. 316, tom. iii., p. 253, tom. iv., pp. 36-7, 49, 54, 104; Peter Martyr, dec. iv., lib. i.; Cortés, Cartas, p. 422; Benzoni, Hist. Mondo Nuovo, fol. 102, 109; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. ii., pp. 50-1, 71, 564; Id., Popol Vuh, p. 97; Squier's Nicaragua (Ed. 1856,) vol. ii., p. 346; Id., Cent. Amer., p. 320; Gallatin, in Amer. Ethno. Soc., Transact., vol. i., p. 8; Andagoya, in Navarrete, Col. de Viajes, tom. iii., p. 414.