[171] Bernal Diaz, vol. II. chap. clxxiii. p. 374.
[172] Villa Gutierre Soto Mayor, “Historia de la Conquista del Itza,” chap. ix.
[173] Gutierre Soto Mayor, vol. I. p. 500. “Their MSS. were written on deer’s skins or the bark of trees prepared into a kind of felt covered over with a white paste. They could be folded like a map and put in a case.”
[174] Remesal, “Historia de la Provincia de Guatemala y Chiapas,” vol. X. chaps. iii., xi., xii.
[175] Cogolludo, vol. II. chap. ix.
[176] Cogolludo, tome II. lib. x. cap. ii.
[177] Villa Gutierre Soto Mayor, “Conquista del Itza,” vol. I.
[178] Maudslay, “Explorations in Guatemala.”
[179] “Incidents of Travels in Central America,” vol. I. p. 153.
[180] Bancroft says that Palacio “had heard of monuments in Yucatan and Tabasco.”