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

Note 1068 — Chapter XXIII · FOOD, DRESS, COMMERCE, AND WAR CUSTOMS OF THE MAYAS.

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In Yucatan: 'These Barbarians eate onely their enemies, or such strangers as come vnto them, otherwise they abstaine from mans flesh.' Peter Martyr, dec. iv., lib. vi. In Guatemala the heads and tripe were seasoned with wine. Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. clxxvii.; Id., in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. viii., p. 147; Villagutierre, Hist. Conq. Itza, pp. 649, 651; Gomara, Hist. Ind., fol. 62; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. ii., lib. iv., cap. vii., dec. iii., lib. iv., cap. vi., vii., lib. vii., cap. iii., dec. iv., lib. x., cap. iv.; Oviedo, Hist. Gen., tom. iv., pp. 37, 51-2, 56, 108; Andagoya, in Navarrete, Col. de Viajes, tom. iii., p. 420; Benzoni, Hist. Mondo Nuovo, fol. 35, 104; Albornoz, in Icazbalceta, Col. de Doc., tom. i., p. 486; Helps' Span. Conq., vol. iii., p. 88; Pimentel, Mem. sobre la Raza Indígena, p. 23; Morelet, Voyage, tom. i., p. 191.

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