Note 1131 — Chapter XXV · BUILDINGS, MEDICINE, BURIAL, PHYSICAL PECULIARITIES, AND CHARACTER OF THE MAYAS.
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'Their houses of bricke or stone, are couered with reedes, where there is a scarcitie of stones, but where Quarries are, they are couered with shindle or slate. Many houses haue marble pillars, as they haue with vs.' Peter Martyr, dec. iv., lib. iii., dec. vi., lib. v.; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iii., lib. iv., cap. vii.; Benzoni, Hist. Mondo Nuovo, p. 102.