[48] 'Tras este jardin se seguian los baños hechos y labrados de peña viva, que con dividirse en dos baños era de una pieza.' Ixtlilxochitl, Hist. Chich., in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., p. 252.
[49] Ib.
[50] Dávila Padilla says that some of the gateways of this palace were formed of one piece of stone, and he saw one beam of cedar there which was almost ninety feet in length and four in breadth. Hist. Fvnd. Mex., p. 620.
[51] Concerning the royal buildings, gardens, &c., of the Aztecs, compare Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., tom. i., cap. l.; Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. i., pp. 167, 296-8; Ixtlilxochitl, Hist. Chich., in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., pp. 243-4, 251-2; Dávila Padilla, Hist. Fvnd. Mex., pp. 619-20; Relatione fatta per vn gentil'huomo del Signor Fernando Cortese, in Ramusio, Navigationi, tom. iii., fol. 309; Sahagun, Hist. Gen., tom. ii., lib. viii., pp. 302-9; Camargo, Hist. Tlax., in Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1843, tom. xcviii., p. 196; Acosta's Hist. Nat. Ind., p. 484; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. i., pp. 271-4; Oviedo, Hist. Gen., tom. iii., pp. 305-7, 504; Bernal Diaz, Hist. Conq., fol. 69; Motolinia, Hist. Indios, in Icazbalceta, Col. de Doc., tom. i., pp. 181-5; Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 107-11; Ortega, in Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. iii., pp. 315-19; Cortés, Cartas, pp. 110-11; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. ii., lib. vii., cap. ix.-xi.; West-Indische Spieghel, pp. 245-6, 343; Gage's New Survey, pp. 97-9; Peter Martyr, dec. v., lib. iii., iv., x.; Chevalier, Mexique, pp. 30-2; Prescott's Mex., vol. i., pp. 177-84, vol. ii., pp. 65, 115-21; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iv., pp. 8-11; Pimentel, Raza Indígena, p. 57; Tápia, Relacion, in Icazbalceta, Col. de Doc., tom. ii., pp. 581-3. Other works of no original value, which touch on this subject, are: Klemm, Cultur-Geschichte, tom. v., pp. 15, 244, 65-6, 234-7; Ranking's Hist. Researches, pp. 347-51; Bussierre, L'Empire Mexicain, pp. 90-4, 109; Macgregor's Progress of America, p. 22; Dilworth's Conq. Mex., pp. 66, 70; West und Ost Indischer Lustgart, pt i., p. 125.
[52] Sahagun, Hist. Gen., tom. iii., lib. x., pp. 107-8.
[53] Close to the great audience hall was a very large court-yard, 'en que avia çient aposentos de veynte é çinco ó treynta piés de largo cada uno sobre sí en torno de dicho patio, é allí estaban los señores prinçipales apossentados, como guardas del palacio ordinarias.' Oviedo, Hist. Gen., tom. iii., p. 501.
[54] 'Vna como tabla labrada con oro, y otras figuras de idolos.' Bernal Diaz, Hist. Conq., fol. 68.
[55] Hist. Gen., tom. ii., lib. viii., pp. 297-302.
[56] This pungent condiment is at the present day as omnipresent in Spanish American dishes as it was at the time of the conquest; and I am seriously informed by a Spanish gentleman who resided for many years in Mexico, and was an officer in Maximilian's army, that while the wolves would feed upon the dead bodies of the French that lay all night upon the battle-field, they never touched the bodies of the Mexicans, because the flesh of the latter was completely impregnated with chile. Which, if true, may be thought to show that wolves do not object to a diet seasoned with garlic.
[57] Described too frequently in vol. i., of this series, to need repetition.