Note X-25 — Chapter X · GODS, SUPERNATURAL BEINGS, AND WORSHIP.
Reading edition
This was the answer given by Juan de Tovar, in his Hist. Ind., MS., to the doubts expressed by Acosta as to the authenticity of the long-winded prayers of the Mexicans, whose imperfect writing was not well adapted to reproduce orations. Helps' Span. Conq., vol. i., p. 282.