[24] Cf. T. A. Joyce, _Mexican Archæology_, London, 1914. [25] Montezuma’s table was provided with fish from the Gulf of Mexico brought to the capital within twenty-four hours of capture by means of relays of runners. Some five gods of fishing, of whom the chief seems to have been Opochtli, were worshipped: to him was ascribed the invention of the net and the _minacachalli_ or trident. Cf. de Sahagun, _Histoire générale des choses de la Nouvelle Espagne_, traduite et annotée par D. Jourdanet et Rémi Simeon, p. 36, Paris, 1880. De Sahagun, a Franciscan, came to Mexico in 1529 and died there in 1590. See also, C. Rau, _op. cit._, p. 214, and T. Joyce, _op. cit._, pp. 165, 221. A not uncommon practice was co-operative fishing, by which, after a portion had been set aside for the feudal lord, the rest of the catch was divided in fixed shares; see Joyce, p. 300. [26] These pictographs were made by native artists shortly after the conquest of Mexico, and were sent by the Viceroy Mendoza, with interpretations in Aztec and Spanish, to the Emperor Charles the Fifth. A copy of this Codex in the Bodleian was reproduced by Lord Kingsborough in his first volume of _Antiquities of Mexico_ (1831). [27] From a letter from the representative in Mexico of the Smithsonian Institute, who adds: “My belief is that the Mayas used the Spear, the Net, and the Bow and Arrow. That is all I can give you at present: should anything else turn up, I will let you know.” In _A Study of Maya Art_, an elaborate work by Herbert J. Spinder (_Peabody Museum Memoirs_, Harvard University, 1913), I have failed to find any fishing scenes or any ancient fishing implements depicted. [28] Baessler translated by A. H. Keane (Asher & Co.), London, 1902-3. Mead’s monograph is in the Putnam Anniversary Volume, New York, 1909. _The Necropolis of Ancon_, by Reiss and Stübel, translated by A. H. Keane, Berlin, 1880-87. [29] T. A. Joyce, _South American Archæology_, London, 1912, p. 126. [30] See _infra_, p. 371. [31] _Indian Notes and Monographs_, published by the Heye Foundation, New York, 1919, p. 56, show in the tombs of Cayuga fish-hooks, harpoons, and fish-bones, “most of which objects are unique or unusual as grave finds.” [32] E. J. Banfield, _Confessions of a Beachcomber_, London, 1913. [33] For descriptions of Palæolithic life, see Worthington G. Smith, _Man the Primal Savage_, London, 1894, and J. J. Atkinson, _Primal Law_, London, 1903. For the community assumed by the former, Atkinson substitutes a family group. [34] Cuvier and Valenciennes, _Hist. Nat. des Poissons_, vol. xviii. pp. 279-80, Paris, 1846. Since in this volume the geographical distribution of the pike, as known at the time, is set forth without any mention of Greece, it is rather difficult to understand the surprise of Valenciennes, who wrote the volume in question; Cuvier died in 1832. [35] É. Cartailhac, _La France Préhistorique_, Paris, 1889, p. 82, fig. 41.