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also the allowance of half a cake, 
Fig- 3 and 4. Punishments of children. They 
are pricked with leaves of maguey, or 
exposed to the smoke of pimento. 
Fig. 5. The adulterous woman and her para- 
mour bound together to be stoned. 
See Le Tellier’s Manuscript in the Li- 
' brary at Paris, PL iv, fig. 2. 
Fig. 6. The father, a, puts one of his sons, 
fifteen years old, into the hands of the 
tlamac(mqni, c, or high priest of the 
temple Calmacac, d, to instruct him, 
Bnd make him a priest. Another son, 
e, of the same age, A, is sent by his 
father to school, g, to be taught by the 
master who is set over the children. 
When a girl married, the aman- 
teza, or matchmaker, i, carried her, 
towards evening, on his back, w, to 
the youth destined to become her hus- 
band, He was lighted by four women, 
X, Zy each bearing in her hand a kind 
of torch of pine wood, marked by the 
ciphers 1, 2, 3, and 4. The parents of 
the youth came out to receive the girl 
at the entrance of the court of the 
house, and introduced her into a room, 
where the youth waited for her ; 
they placed themselves on seats ar- 
ranged on a mat, o ; and the whole 
