Relacion de las ceremonias y ritos, poblacion y gobierno de los indios de la provincia de Mechuacan (1541, printed Madrid 1869)

The fullest surviving account of the Tarascan state, written in Michoacan in 1541 by a friar who says on his first pages that the viceroy asked him twice or three times why he did not set down the government of these people, that he took it "por relacion de los mas viejos y antiguos desta provincia", and that he wanted the province ruled by the good it had in its own time. The same page calls that past ceremonies, drunkenness and wars.