[957] Cf. Bandelier, Am. Antiq. Soc. Proc., n. s., i. 93; Field, no. 176; H. H. Bancroft’s Nat. Races, ii. 116, 780; v. 126, 153, 236, 241,—who says of Brasseur that “he rejects nothing, and transforms everything into historic fact;” but Bancroft looks to Brasseur for the main drift of his chapter on pre-Toltec history. Cf. Brinton’s Myths of the New World, p. 41.
[958] Bancroft, Nat. Races, v. 176; Baldwin, Anc. America.
[959] Reference may be made to H. T. Moke’s Histoire des peuples Américains (Bruxelles, 1847); Michel Chevalier’s “Du Mexique avant et pendant la Conquête,” in the Revue des deux Mondes, 1845, and his Le Méxique ancien et moderne (Paris, 1863); and some parts of the Marquis de Nadaillac’s L’Amérique préhistorique (Paris, 1883). A recent popular summary, without references, of the condition and history of ancient Mexico, is Lucien Biart’s Les Aztèques, histoire, mœurs, coutumes (Paris, 1885), of which there is an English translation, The Aztecs, their history, etc., translated by J. L. Garnier (Chicago, 1887).
[960] Leclerc, no. 1147; Field, no. 620; Squier, no. 427; Sabin, vii. 28,255; Bandelier in Am. Antiq. Soc. Proc., n. s., i. 116. It has never yet been reprinted. The early date, as well as its rarity, have contributed to give it, perhaps, undue reputation. It is worth from £3 to £4.
[961] Leclerc, no. 1119. See Vol. II. p. 415.
[962] Leclerc, no. 2079; Brasseur, Bib. Mex.-Guat., p. 113.
[963] For the Historia de Mexico of Carbajal Espinosa, see Vol. II. p. 428. Cf. Alfred Chavero’s México á través de los Siglos.
[964] Discrediting Gomara’s statement that De Ayllon found tribes near Cape Hatteras who had tame deer and made cheese from their milk, Dr. Brinton says: “Throughout the continent there is not a single authentic instance of a pastoral tribe, not one of an animal raised for its milk, nor for the transportation of persons, and very few for their flesh. It was essentially a hunting race.” (Myths of the New World, 21.) He adds: “The one mollifying element was agriculture, substituting a sedentary for a wandering life, supplying a fixed dependence for an uncertain contingency.”
[965] See Vol. II. p. 98.
[966] It was two years earlier, in 1517, that Hernandez de Cordova had first noticed the ruins of the Yucatan coast, though Columbus, in 1502, near Yucatan had met a Maya vessel, which with its navigators had astonished him.