Note 75 — Chapter IV · PALACES AND HOUSEHOLDS OF THE NAHUA KINGS.
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This was the Aztec manner of salutation, and is doubtless what Bernal Diaz means where he writes: 'Y en señal de paz tocauan con la mano en el suelo, y besauan la tierra con la mesma mano.' Hist. Conq., fol. 65.