debateth

Updated: May 15, 2025

Of the anecdotes of this terrible self-immolation, as they were then known in England, here are a few out of many. The first is simple, and a specimen of the ordinary method. A Yucatan cacique, who was forced with his old subjects to labour in the mines, at last 'calling those miners into an house, to the number of ninety-five, he thus debateth with them:

James Anthony Froude - Short Studies on Great Subjects