Note 1093 — Chapter XXIII · FOOD, DRESS, COMMERCE, AND WAR CUSTOMS OF THE MAYAS.
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Macanas used as weapons in Nicaragua. Oviedo, Hist. Gen., tom. iv., pp. 53, 33, tom. i., pp. 511-12, tom. iii., pp. 231, 484. Crystal-pointed arrows used by the Itzas, and chiefs had short flint knives, with feathers on the handles. Villagutierre, Hist. Conq. Itza, pp. 495, 41, 92. Hardened rods, or pikes. Cogolludo, Hist. Yuc., pp. 77, 2. Darts thrown from a 'tiradera.' Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. ii., lib. ii., cap, xvii., dec. iii., lib. iv., cap. vi., lib. v., cap. x., lib. vii., cap. iii., dec. iv., lib. x., cap. ii. A bat was the sign of a Cakchiquel armory. Brasseur de Bourbourg, Popol Vuh, p. 225. See also Maya weapons. Squier's Nicaragua, (Ed. 1856,) vol. ii., p. 341, 347; Peter Martyr, dec. vi., lib. v.; Boyle's Ride, vol. i., p. 258; Scherzer, Wanderungen, p. 63; Landa, Relacion, pp. 48, 170; Las Casas, in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. viii., p. 148; Waldeck, Voy. Pitt., p. 64, with cut; Morelet, Voyage, tom. i., pp. 186, 194; Diaz, Itinéraire, in Ternaux-Compans, Voy., série i., tom. x., p. 25; Id., in Icazbalceta, Col. de Doc., tom. i., p. 295; Bernal Diaz, Hist. Conq., fol. 2; Ximenez, Hist. Ind. Guat., p. 127.