Note 73 — Chapter XII · The Sierra Madre.—Todos Santos.—Evening Prayer (La Oracion).—Indian domestic habits.—Religious devotion.—Goitre.—Jacaltenango.—Indian Festival.—A Temblor.—Indian Idolatry.—Custom of ancient inhabitants to serve the parents whose daughters they wished to marry.—Doubtful fidelity of my guide.—Condition of Mule.—Mexican Frontier.—Comitan.—Note on President Juarez, and the Execution of the Emperor Maximilian.
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Las Casas, who was Bishop of the adjacent diocese of Chiapas in the sixteenth century, mentions that it was the custom there amongst the lower classes to give a year’s service to the parents.—“Pero la gente comun tenía de costumbre de servir in sus labores un año al padre de la que por mujer queria, de la manera que Jacob sirvio à Laban por sus hijas Rachel y Lya.” This was also the custom in Yucatan.