Note VII-29 — Chapter VII · ANTIQUITIES OF OAJACA AND GUERRERO.
Reading edition
Authorities on antiquities of Zachila. Dupaix, 2d exped., pp. 44-51, pl. xlvii., fig. 95-116; Kingsborough, vol. v., pp. 269-78, vol. vi., pp. 458-63, vol. iv., pl. xlvii.-li., fig. 96-117. Kingsborough also attributes fig. 118-19 to Zachila, but according to the official edition the relics represented by those numbers came from Tizatlan in Tlascala. Lenoir, in Antiq. Mex., tom. ii., div. i., pp. 57-63. The aboriginal name of the place was Zaachillatloo. Dupaix, pp. 44-5. Brasseur, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., p. 47, speaks of a fortress visited by several travelers, built by Zaachila, the great Zapotec conqueror, on the top of a lofty rock 25 leagues east of Oajaca. Mention of ruins and two cuts of figures in Ilustracion Mej., tom. iii., pp. 367-8, 480; Escalera and Llana, Mej. Hist. Descrip., p. 226.