[1178] Ximenez, Hist. Ind. Guat., p. 210, et seq., affirms that wealthy people, when they began growing old, set about collecting a vast number of clothes and ornaments in which to be buried.
[1179] Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. ii., p. 575, says that the body was deposited in the grave seated upon a throne.
[1180] Ximenez, Hist. Ind. Guat., pp. 210-14; Palacio, Carta, p. 119; Cogolludo, Hist. Yuc., pp. 699-700.
[1181] Unless a great number of people were living in it, when they seem to have gathered courage from each other's company, and to have remained.
[1182] Landa, Relacion, p. 196; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iv., lib. x., cap. iv.
[1183] Villagutierre, Hist. Cong. Itza, p. 313.
[1184] Palacio, Carta, p. 119; Oviedo, Hist. Gen., tom. iv., p. 48.
[1185] Palacio, Carta, p. 78; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. ii., p. 556.
[1186] Landa, Relacion, pp. 196-8; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iv., lib. x., cap. iv.
[1187] Oviedo, Hist. Gen., tom. iv., pp. 48-9. In the island of Ometepec the ancient graves are not surrounded by isolated stones like the calputs of the modern Indians, but are found scattered irregularly over the plain at a depth of three feet. Urns of burnt clay are found in these graves, filled with earth and displaced bones; and vases of the same material, covered with red paintings and hieroglyphics, stone points of arrows, small idols, and gold ornaments. Sivers, Mittelamerika, pp. 128-9.