Note 234 — Chapter VII · EDUCATION, MARRIAGE, CONCUBINAGE, CHILDBIRTH, AND BAPTISM.
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The authorities on childbirth, baptism, and circumcision are: Sahagun, Hist. Gen., tom. i., lib. ii., pp. 187-90, lib. iv., pp. 281-337, tom. ii., lib. vi., pp. 160-222, tom. iii., lib. x., pp. 119-20; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., pp. 2-73, 86-89; Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., pp. 83-4, 266, 286, 445-61; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iii., lib. ii., cap. xvii., lib. iii., cap. xii., lib. iv., cap. xvi.; Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. clxxv., clxxix.; Codex Mendoza, pp. 90-1, in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. v.; Motolinia, Hist. Indios, in Icazbalceta, Col. de Doc., tom. i., pp. 37-8, 77, 108; Zuazo, Carta, in Id., pp. 363-4; Mendieta, Hist. Ecles., pp. 107-8, 139; Burgoa, Geog. Descrip., tom. ii., pt ii., fol. 329, 395; Dávila, Teatro Ecles., tom. i., p. 18; Camargo, Hist. Tlax., in Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1843, tom. xcviii., p. 203; Carbajal Espinosa, Hist. Mex., tom. i., pp. 538, 551-5, 673; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. i., p. 240, tom. iii., pp. 35, 525-6, 560-3; Acosta, Hist. de las Ynd., p. 374; Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 312, 317-18; Touron, Hist. Gén., tom. iii., pp. 12-13; Chaves, Rapport, in Ternaux-Compans, Voy., série ii., tom. v., pp. 306-8; Montanus, Nieuwe Weereld, pp. 32, 265; Klemm, Cultur-Geschichte, tom. v., pp. 36-9; Bussierre, L'Empire Mex., pp. 140-1; D'Avity, L'Amérique, tom. ii., p. 73; Baril, Mexique, pp. 199-200; Ritos Antiguos, pp. 22-3, in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix.; Laet, Novus Orbis, p. 239; Adair's Amer. Ind., p. 217; Müller, Reisen, tom. iii., pp. 118-20; Purchas his Pilgrimes, vol. iv., pp. 1102-3, 1140; Carli, Cartas, pt. i., p. 101; Duran, Hist. Indias, MS., tom. iii., cap. iii.; Diaz, Itinéraire, in Ternaux-Compans, Voy., série i., tom. x., p. 45; Humboldt, Essai Pol., tom. i., p. 90; Morton's Crania Amer., p. 147; Delafield's Antiq. Amer., p. 19.