[788] Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., pp. 147-50.
[789] Sahagun, Hist. Gen., tom. i., lib. ii., pp. 201-7; Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., p. 149; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., p. 32, calls it Hueitzompan.
[790] 'En los escalones habia tambien un cráneo entre piedra y piedra.' Ortega, in Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. iii., p. 287. But this is unlikely. See also Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 121.
[791] 'Estos palos hazian muchas aspas por las vigas, y cada tercio de aspa o palo, tenia cinco cabeças ensartadas por las sienes.' Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 121-2. Acosta, Hist. de las Ynd., p. 334, places the masts a fathom apart, and twenty skulls upon each cross-pole, which is, to say the least, very close packing.
[792] At each end of the platform. Warden, Recherches, p. 66.
[793] Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., p. 32; Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 121-2; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. ii., lib. vii., cap. xviii.; Acosta, Hist. de las Ynd., pp. 333-5. The account of the latter author is so mixed up with that of the chief temple as to be of little value; Montanus, Nieuwe Weereld, pp. 242-3, follows him.
[794] Acosta, Hist. de las Ynd., p. 333, says that 8,000 to 10,000 persons could dance with joined hands in this place.
[795] Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., p. 48, with cut; Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., p. 154; Ortega, in Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. iii., p. 283; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., p. 662.
[796] Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 120; Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., pp. 146-7; Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. li.
[797] Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., p. 151; Ixtlilxochitl, Hist. Chich., in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., p. 244.