[898] 'Son celosissimosmos, y assi las aporrean mucho.' Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 317. We have seen in a former chapter, that Nezahualcoyotl put his dearest son to death for speaking lewdly to his father's concubine. See this volume, pp. [447], et seq.; see further concerning the character of the Mexicans, about whom the above remarks, though doubtless applicable to many other of the Nahua nations, are more particularly made: Esplicacion de la Coleccion de Mendoza, in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. v., p. 40; Acosta, Hist. de las Ynd., pp. 458-9; Dávila Padilla, Hist. Fvnd. Mex., pp. 139, 270; Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. iii., p. 232; Gomara, Conq. Mex., pp. 317-18; Padilla, Conq. N. Galicia, MS., p. 8; Zorita, in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. viii., p. 235; Tezozomoc, Crónica Mex., in Id., vol. ix., p. 167; Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. xliv., xlv., lxvii., cxl.; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. i., pp. 119-23, tom. iv., pp. 177-202; Soden, Spanier in Peru, tom. ii., p. 17; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iv., pp. 727-30, 810; Edinburgh Review, 1867; Klemm, Cultur-Geschichte, tom. v., pp. 8-10; Espinosa, Hist. Mex., tom. i., pp. 90-3; Gordon's Hist. and Geog. Mem., pp. 73-6; Chevalier, Mexique, pp. 53-4.
[899] For the character of the Tlascaltecs see: Cortés, Cartas, p. 68; Camargo, Hist. Tlax., in Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1843, tom. xcviii., pp. 197-200, tom. xcix., pp. 136, 149, 151; Motolinia, Hist. Indios, in Icazbalceta, Col. de Doc., tom. i., p. 76; Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 87; Alcedo, Dicc., tom. v., p. 155; Heredia y Sarmiento, Sermon, p. 88; Ixtlilxochitl, Hist. Chich., in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., p. 294; Peter Martyr, dec. v., lib. i.; Pradt, Cartas, pp. 175-6; Carbajal Espinosa, Hist. Mex., tom. ii., pp. 121, 129, 511; Klemm, Cultur-Geschichte, tom. v., pp. 186-7; Bussierre, L'Empire Mex., p. 230; Dillon, Hist. Mex., p. 7.
[900] Oviedo, Hist. Gen., tom. iii., p. 499; Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 95; Pradt, Cartas, p. 176; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iv., p. 130; Carbajal Espinosa, Hist. Mex., tom. i., p. 259, tom. ii., pp. 121, 339.
[901] Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iii., lib. iii., cap. xiv.; Dávila Padilla, Hist. Fvnd. Mex., p. 548; Delaporte, Reisen, tom. x., p. 183.
[902] Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iii., lib. iii., cap. xiii.; Carbajal Espinosa, Hist. Mex., tom. i., p. 244; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., p. 35.
[903] Gomara, Hist. Ind., fol. 57.
[904] Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iv., lib. viii., cap. ii.
[905] Beaumont, Crón. Mechoacan, MS., pp. 51-2; Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. i., p. 337, tom. iii., p. 332; Oviedo, Hist. Gen., tom. iii., p. 563; Ixtlilxochitl, Hist. Chich., in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., p. 308; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iii., lib. iii., cap. x.; Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 218; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., pp. 56-7; Carbajal Espinosa, Hist. Mex., tom. i., p. 291, tom. ii., p. 595; Malte-Brun, Précis de la Géog., tom. vi., p. 456.
[906] See pp. [81]-[123] of this volume, and especially pp. [114]-[23], on the Maya nations.
[907] Although Brasseur de Bourbourg, on the authority of some of his original MSS. perhaps, states that Xibalba in the height of its glory was ruled by thirteen princes, two of whom were kings, the second being subordinate to the first; and also that there was a council of twelve, presided over by the king. He also mentions a succession of seventeen kings after Votan. Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. i., pp. 127, 123, 95-7.