HUNTING ADVENTU11K8, 



GLADIATORIAL COMBAT OF THE MEXICANS. 



death closed the merciless combat. A people accustomed tc 

 .spectacles like this, would naturally take peculiar delight in tu 

 sports of the chase. Accordingly, we find that the Mexicans were 

 very dexterous in hunting. They used bows and arrows, darts 

 nets, snares, and a kind of tube named carbotfane, through 

 which they shot by blowing out little balls at birds. Those 

 which the kings and great men made use of were curiously 

 carved and painted, and likewise adorned with gold and silver. 

 Besides the exercise of the chase, which private individuals took 

 either for amusement or to provide food, there were genera. 

 Hunting-matches, sometimes appointed by the king ; at others, to 

 provide victims for sacrifices. 



A large wood, generally that of Zacatapec, near me capita* 



