Note 1065 — Chapter XXIII · FOOD, DRESS, COMMERCE, AND WAR CUSTOMS OF THE MAYAS.
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Cortés, Cartas, p. 23, tells us that no bread was made in Yucatan, but that maize was eaten roasted. The best tortillas in Nicaragua were called tascalpachon. Oviedo, Hist. Gen., tom. i., pp. 267, 324, 355, 411, 513, 523, tom. iii., p. 227. See also Landa, Relacion, pp. 116-20, 135; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iv., lib. x., cap. xiii.