José de Acosta  

"Joseph Acosta relates, that the Mexicans on the sea-coast, sent information to Montezuma of the arrival of the Spanish navy ..."--Lectures on Rhetoric and Criticism (1838) by Stevenson MacGill

"Acosta says of the Peruvians that before any of their great ceremonies, “to prepare themselves, all the people fasted two days, during which they did neyther company with their wives nor eate any meate with salt or garlicke, nor drink any chica.”—(Acosta, “Historie of the Indies,” edition of London, 1604, quoted by Lang, “Myth, Ritual, and Religion,” London, 1887, vol. ii. p. 283.)" -Scatalogic Rites of All Nations (1891) by John Gregory Bourke