[238] Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., p. 457.
[239] Sahagun, Hist. Gen., tom. ii., lib. viii., p. 292.
[240] For description of feasts see: Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., pp. 457-8; Sahagun, Hist. Gen., tom. i., lib. iv., pp. 332-6, tom. ii., lib. ix., pp. 359-60, 364-5; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., pp. 615-6; Id., in Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1858, tom. clix., pp. 74-6; Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 318; Prescott's Mex., vol. i., pp. 152-7; Bussierre, L'Empire Mex., p. 178; Baril, Mexique, pp. 210-11; Ritos Antiguos, p. 20, in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix.
[241] Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. iii., pp. 49-51; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., p. 227. Hernandez, Nova Plant., p. 173; Oviedo, Hist. Gen., tom. i., p. 525; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., p. 646; Carbajal Espinosa, Hist. Mex., tom. i., p. 684; Klemm, Cultur-Geschichte, tom. v., pp. 12-13.
[242] 'Iuntauanse a este bayle, no mil hombres, como dize Gomara, pero mas de ocho mil.' Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. ii., lib. vii., cap. viii.
[243] Sahagun, Hist. Gen., tom. ii., lib. viii., p. 315, ever prepared with capital punishment, states that 'el señor les mandaba prender, y otro dia los mandaba matar.'
[244] Hist. Gen., dec. iii., lib. ii., cap. xix.
[245] Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., p. 180.
[246] Sahagun, Hist. Gen., tom. ii., lib. viii., pp. 308-9; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., pp. 181-2.
[247] Netecuhytotiliztli, according to Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., p. 286.