[738] 'Toldillos encima.' Bernal Diaz, Hist. Conq., fol. 66.
[739] Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. l.; Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 318; Bernal Diaz, Hist. Conq., fol. 66, 68; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. ii., lib. vii., cap. v., vii.; Bussierre, L'Empire Mex., pp. 174-5; Cortés, Cartas, pp. 79, 174-5. Klemm, Cultur-Geschichte, tom. v., pp. 15-16, mentions stools of cane and reed; and firebugs which were used for lights.
[740] Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., p. 381; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., p. 201; Carbajal Espinosa, Hist. Mex., tom. i., p. 662. 'No ay puertas ni ventanas que cerrar, todo es abierto.' Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 318.
[741] Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iv., p. 8.
[742] Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. ii., lib. vi., cap. xii.; Peter Martyr, dec. v., lib. x.; Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. xlix-l.; Prescott's Mex., vol. ii., p. 76.
[743] Peter Martyr, dec. v., lib. x.
[744] Motolinia, Hist. Indios, in Icazbalceta, Col. de Doc., tom. i., p. 199; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., p. 200; Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 318; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., p. 657; Carbajal Espinosa, Hist. Mex., tom. i., pp. 661-2.
[745] Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., pp. 214-15, with cut; Carbajal Espinosa, Hist. Mex., tom. i., pp. 662, 671-2, with cut. The poorer had doubtless resort to public baths; they certainly existed in Tlascala. Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. ii., lib. vi., cap. xvi.; Bussierre, L'Empire Mex., p. 240.
[746] Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., p. 155; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., p. 635; Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., p. 564. For description of houses, see: Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. i., pp. 251-2, 291, tom. ii., pp. 381, 564; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. ii., lib. vi., cap. xii., xvi., lib. vii., cap. v.; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., pp. 155, 200-2, 214-15, with cut; Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. xlix.-lii.; Cortés, Cartas, p. 24; Relatione fatta per vn gentil'huomo del Signor Fernando Cortese, in Ramusio, Navigationi, tom. iii., fol. 309; Bernal Diaz, Hist. Conq., fol. 66, 68; Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 318; Motolinia, Hist. Indios, in Icazbalceta, Col. de Doc., tom. i., p. 199; Mendieta, Hist. Ecles., p. 121; Tezozomoc, Hist. Mex., tom. i., p. 188; Peter Martyr, dec. iv., lib. iv., vii., dec. v., cap. x.; Chaves, Rapport, in Ternaux-Compans, Voy., série ii., tom. v., p. 328; West-Indische Spieghel, p. 221; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., pp. 26, 222, 635, 656-8, iv., p. 8; Prescott's Mex., vol. ii., pp. 76-7, 120; Chevalier, Mex., Ancien et Mod., p. 31; Bussierre, L'Empire Mex., pp. 173-5, 240; Carbajal Espinosa, Hist. Mex., tom. i., pp. 661-3, 671-2, with cut, tom. ii., p. 219; Tylor's Anahuac, pp. 135-6; Klemm, Cultur-Geschichte, tom. v., pp. 15-16.
[747] 'El anden, hácia la pared de la huerta, va todo labrado de cañas con unas vergas.' Cortés, Cartas, p. 83.