Note 20 — Chapter III · GOVERNMENT OF THE NAHUA NATIONS.

Concerning anointment and coronation, see Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. i., p. 102; tom. ii., pp. 83, 359-69; Zurita, Rapport, in Ternaux-Compans, Voy., série ii., tom. i., pp. 20-9; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., pp. 113-15; Sahagun, Hist. Gen., tom. ii., lib. viii., pp. 318-21; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iii., lib. iv., cap. xv.; Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 305-6; Acosta, Hist. de las Ynd., pp. 356, 439-40, 474; Ortega, in Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. iii., p. 309; Tezozomoc, Crón. Mex., in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., tom. ix., p. 142-3. In addition to the numerous works of acknowledged authority on the subject of aboriginal American civilization there are a number of others, chiefly of modern date, that treat more or less completely of the matter. Many of these are mere compilations, put together without regard to accuracy or consistency; others are works which deal ostensibly with other Spanish American matters and only refer to the ancient civilization in passing; their accounts are usually copied bodily from one or two of the old writers; some few profess to exhaust the subject; in these latter, however, the authors have failed to cite their authorities, or at best have merely given a list of them. To attempt to note all the points on which these writers have fallen into error, or where they differ from my text, would prove as tiresome to the reader as the result would lie useless. It will therefore be sufficient to refer to this class of books at the conclusion of the large divisions into which this work naturally falls. About the system of government, laws of succession, ceremonies of election, anointment and coronation, of the Aztecs and other nations included in this division, see: Carbajal Espinosa, Hist. Mex., tom. i., pp. 578-83, 596; Soden, Spanier in Peru, tom. ii., pp. 8-14, 51-2; Touron, Hist. Gén., tom. iii., pp. 6-7, 25-38; Baril, Mexique, pp. 204-7; Bussierre, L'Empire Mexicain, pp. 119, 150-8, 229-30, 244; Lafond, Voyages, tom. i., p. 119; Poinsett's Notes Mex., app., pp. 22-3; Macgregor's Progress of America, p. 21; Dillon, Hist. Mex., pp. 24-6, 41-3; Hassel, Mex. Guat., p. 247; Dilworth, Conq. Mex., p. 45; Pradt, Cartas, pp. 106, 176; Monglave, Résumé, pp. 9, 14-19, 22-3, 32-6, 68; Klemm, Cultur-Geschichte, tom. v., pp. 59-75, 186; Cortés, Aventuras, pref., pp. 7-13; Chamber's Jour., vol. iv., p. 253; West und Ost Indischer Lustgart, p. 97.