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these three months, which it was painful to see; some departing covered 

 with wounds or l^ruises, others with their eyes inflamed with the quantity 

 of hquor which they had imbibed, and with this passion for drink they 

 ruined themselves entirely. 



P. — It has been said, in the preceding chapters, that the Indians com- 

 menced their years with days without names, preparing in the villages for 

 the celebration of the feast of the new year. Besides the feast which they 

 made to the god U-uayeyah, by right of which alone they went out from 

 home, they solemnized especially these five days, seldom quitting their 

 houses, except to present, besides the offerings made in public, different 

 trifles to their gods in the other temples. Thej^ never afterwards employed, 

 for their particular use, the bagatelles which they offered to the idols, but 

 they bought the incense which they burned with it. They neither combed 

 nor washed themselves during these days; neither men nor women cleansed 

 themselves. They did not do any servile or fatiguing work, for fear that 

 some misfortune might befall them. 



APPENDIX NO. 4. 



Manera de las casus en Yucatan} 



Quo la manera de hazer las casas era cubrirlas de paja que tienen muy 

 buena y mucha, o con hojas de palma que es propia para esto y que tenian 

 muy grandes corrientes para que no se lluevan, y que despues echan una 

 pared por medio al largo que divide toda la casa, y que en esta pargd dexai.) 

 algunas puertas para la mitad que llaman las espaldas de la casa, dondr 

 tienen sus camas, y que la otra mitad blanquean de muy gentil encalado, y 

 que los seilores las tienen pintadas de muchas galanterias y que esta mitad 

 es el recebimiento y aposento de los guespedes^- y que esta pie^a no tiene 

 puerta, sino toda abierta conforme al largo de la casa, y baxa mucho la 

 corriente delantera por temor de los soles y aguas, y dizen que tambien jDara 

 ensenorearse de los enemigos de la parte de dentro en tiempo de necessitad. 

 Y que el pueblo menudo hazia a su costa las casas de los sefiores, y que con 



'Mode of building houses among the Yucatecs, Landa, sec. xx, p. 110. 



