[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.

[1188] Landa, Relacion, p. 196; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iv., lib. x., cap. iv.; Id. lib. viii., cap. x.; Ximenez, Hist. Ind. Guat., p. 214; Villagutierre, Hist. Conq. Itza, p. 313; Palacio, Carta, pp. 76-8.

[1189] Peter Martyr, dec. vi., lib. v.

[1190] Andagoya, in Navarrete, Col. de Viages, tom. iii., p. 414; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iii., lib. iv., cap. vii., dec. iv., lib. x., cap. iii.; Oviedo, Hist. Gen., tom. iv., p. 111; Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 23; Dávila, Teatro Ecles., tom. i., p. 170; Cogolludo, Hist. Yuc., p. 700; Landa, Relacion, pp. 112-14; Villagutierre, Hist. Conq. Itza, p. 402; De Laet, Novus Orbis, p. 329.

[1191] Landa, Relacion, pp. 100, 122, 188-90; Villagutierre, Hist. Conq. Itza, pp. 312, 516; Dávila, Teatro Ecles., tom. i., p. 203; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iv., lib. x., cap. iv.; Cogolludo, Hist. Yuc., pp. 180, 187-8; Gomara, Hist. Ynd., fol. 62; Las Casas, in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. viii., pp. 147-8.

[1192] Gomara, Hist. Ynd., fol. 268; Dávila, Teatro Ecles., tom. i., p. 148; Oviedo, Hist. Gen., tom. iv., p. 33; Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. xlvi.

[1193] Crónica Seráfica, pp. 25-6.

[1194] Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iii., lib. iv., cap. vii., dec. iv., lib. iii., cap. ii.; Oviedo, Hist. Gen., tom. iv., p. 39.