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Indian country, [ have never seen an Indian woman eating with her hus- 
band. Men form the first group at the banquet, and women and children 
and dogs all come together at the next.”’ And Adair ‘‘for the men feast by 
themselves and the women eat the remains.”* Herrera remarks that ‘‘the 
woman of Yucatan are rather larger than the Spanish, and generally have 
good faces, * * * but they would formerly be drunk at their festivals, 
though they did eat apart”* And Sahagun, speaking of the ceremony of 
baptism among the Aztecs, observes that ‘to the women, who ate apart, 
they did not give cacao to drink.”* With these general references to the 
universality of the practice on the part of the men of eating first, and 
leaving the women and children to come afterwards, according to the man- 
ners of barbarism, we leave the subject. 
! North American Indians, i, 202. 2History of the American Indians, p. 140. 
3 History of America, iv, 175. 4 Historia General, lib. iv, 36. 
