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INTRODUCTION. 
 
 (ENTRAL America, in a geographical 
 fenfe, may be underftood to compre- 
 hend that portion of the American 
 Continent lying between the Ifthmufes 
 of Tehuantepec and Darien ; that is to fay, 
 as comprifing the five States of Guatemala, 
 Honduras, San Salvador, Nicaragua and Cofla 
 Rica, which compofed the old Republic of Central 
 America, and the States or Provinces of Yucatan, 
 Chiapas, Tabafco. and Soconufco, belonging to 
 Mexico, the Britifh Eftablifliment of Belize, as alfo, 
 on the fouth, the Province of Veraguas, pertaining 
 to New Granada. The relations of the different 
 aboriginal families or nations who inhabited this 
 portion of America, render this defignation both 
 proper and convenient in all Archaeological and 
 Ethnological inquiries and fpeculations. 
 
 It . is within Central America, as thus defined, 
 that we difcover the moft impofing Monuments of 
 
[ iv ] 
 
 aboriginal Architedture, and thofe whiqh indicate 
 the greateft advancement in the Mechanic and 
 Domeftic Arts. And there are many reafons for 
 believing that it was here alfo, where Aboriginal 
 Civilization reacfhed its higheft developement, and 
 whence it fpread, in a modified form, to the north- 
 ward as far as the mouth of the Panuco river, where 
 it was refledted in what is known as the Mexican 
 civilization. Nor is it impoffible, at leaii there are a 
 number of fadts fupporting fuch an inference, that 
 the Ndhuails or Aztecs, who attained a dominating 
 pofition on the high plains of Anahuac, had their 
 original feats in Central America, where we ftill 
 find, in the States of Nicaragua and San Salvador, 
 confiderable fragments of the fame ftock. 
 
 It is in Central America alfo, where we muft 
 look for the original feats and permanent eftablifh- 
 ments of the Tulhuatecas, who, under the name of 
 Toltecs, figure fo confpicuoufly in all fpeculations 
 on the origin of Mexican or Aztec civilization. 
 That the original Tula, Ticlha or Tollan, exifted in 
 the Province of Chiapas near Ocofingo or Palenque, 
 if it were not one of thofe ruined cities, fcarcely 
 admits of doubt ; and it is equally certain, if not 
 capable of demon ftration, that the great femi- 
 
[v] 
 
 civilized family which, under the general name of 
 Mayas in Yucatan, Quiches, Zutugiles and Kachi- 
 quels, etc., etc., in Chiapas and Guatemala, ftill con- 
 ftitutes the predominating population of thofe pro- 
 vinces, was precifely that which is vaguely known 
 as Toltec. It was from this portion of America 
 that colonies were fent out, which eftablilhed them- 
 felves, as already faid, on the river Panuco, where 
 they were known, at the period of the Conqueft, 
 as Huajiecas, and whence their priefts, bearing the 
 name of their traditional great lawgiver and ^poia- 
 tiff-Cucu/can, went forth to inftrud: the ruder tribes 
 of Anahuac in Religion^ Goverhment, and the Arts, 
 and amongft whom the name of Cuculcan was 
 literally tranflated by that of ^etzalcoatl. It is 
 not impoilible that they alfo reached the Ifland of 
 Cuba and even, perhaps, the ancient Hifpaniola : 
 but on thefe points our evidence is by no means 
 conclufive. 
 
 To this fame great family we may alfo afcribe v 
 thofe painted and engraved records, of which the 
 fo-called Mexican Ms. preferved at Drefden, and 
 the fciilptured tablets at Palenque, Copan, etc., are 
 examples, and which are by no means to be con- 
 founded with the ruder chronicles and painted 
 
[vi] 
 
 Rituals of Mexico. If, as there are found reafons 
 for believing, thefe Central American Records are in 
 whole or part true Hieroglyphics, we muft look for 
 their phonetic values in the lengua madre or mother 
 language, of which the Tzendal, Maya, Huafleca, 
 Quiche, Kachiquel, Chorti, Mam, etc., etc., are 
 only dialedts. 
 
 Hence if is, that thefe Dialedbs become inverted 
 with an archasological intereft and value, not attach- 
 ing to,any other linguiftical group of the Continent. 
 They profeably bear towards the original languages, 
 foffilized in the ftones of Palenque, Copan and the 
 other Central American Palmyras, very much the 
 relation fuftained by the modern Coptic towards 
 the ancient Egyptian ; and it is through them only, 
 and by a careful determination of their radixes, that 
 we can ever hope to decypher the Central American 
 Hierpglyphics, and reach the fecrets which they 
 conceal. 
 
 But itis not alone in thisfenfe that thefe Languages 
 are interefting and their ftudy important. They 
 are fpoken by a vaft majority of the people of 
 Yucatan and Guatemala, as alfo by a confiderable 
 portion of thofe of Chiapas and Tabafco, and ex- 
 
[vii] 
 clufively by the unconquered Indian families, the 
 Lacandones, Gholes, Manches, etc., which occupy 
 the vaft unexplored region watered by the Ufuma- 
 finta river. It may fafely be affirmed that they are 
 ipoken by more than a million and a half of Indians 
 in the diftridls here indicated, and that by far the 
 larger part of thefe underftand no other. Thefe 
 countries are relapfing into their aboriginal con- 
 dition, or rather under the dominion of their abori- 
 ginal occupants, whofe blood i&faft wafhing out the 
 infulions of the -Spanifh Conqueft and European 
 colonization ; and the time feems not far diftant, 
 when the language of the Maya chiefs will become 
 almoft exclufive in Yucatan, and that of the old 
 Kings of Quiche and Rabihal equally predominant 
 in Vera Paz and the Altos of Guatemala. Such a 
 refult is inevitable unlefs prevented by fome fpeedy 
 and powerful interpofition of other races, who fhall 
 regain all that Spanifh power has loft and is lofing. 
 In any event, the languages here enumerated muft 
 continue, if not abfolutely predominant, always 
 adlive and common for ages 'to come ; and under 
 this view, as equally for their aids in Inveftigations 
 purely Archaeological, they are worthy of ftudy, and 
 
[-viii ] 
 
 the unpublifhed Works, which embody their Gram- 
 mars and Vocabularies, deferving of prefervation and 
 difFufion. 
 
 But while afligning this importance, both as 
 regards civilization and language, to the aboriginal 
 families occupying Guatemala and Yucatan, and 
 the States adjacent to the north and weflward, it 
 would be a miftake to fuppofe that there are not 
 other nations and families in Central America of 
 fcarcely inferior intereft. As I have already faid, 
 corifiderable fragments of the Nahuatl or Aztec 
 ftock were alfo eftabliftied there, where a portion of 
 them ftill retain their language and their primitive 
 habits but flightly iijipaired or modified, befides 
 other' aboriginal nations of lower rank, fparfely 
 difFufed over diftridts where natural conditions are 
 oppofed to any confiderable advancement on the part 
 of their inhabitants. And here I may obferve, as 
 a fadt readily explicable on phyfical grounds, that 
 whatever of civilization there exifted amongft the 
 Aboriginies of both Americas, is found to have 
 originated under preoifely fimilar conditions, on the 
 high, cool, and comparatively dry and falubrious 
 plateaus of Central America, Mexico and Peru. 
 Here indigenous fruits, eafily propagated in a fertile 
 
[ix] 
 
 foil, and a relief from the precarious ftruggle for 
 exiftence by hunting and fifhing impofed on the 
 dwellers in vaft, unconquerable Forefts, enabled 
 men early to dedicate a portion of their time to the 
 adjuftment of their relations with each other, arui 
 to thofe Sciencs and Arts to which their Intelledt 
 and Taftes almoft inftindlively turn, when they 
 are liberated from the prelTure of Phyfical Wants. 
 
 For all general purpofes, and in illuftration of 
 this Monograph,, the following claffification of the 
 aboriginal inhabitants of Central America is fuffi- 
 ciently exadt. ' 
 
 I. Hhe Tzendal or Maya Group of Nations, com- 
 prifing the Mayas, Quiches, Zutugils, Kachiquels, 
 Pocomans, Lacandones, Mams, Manches, Cholesy 
 Itzaes, Chortes, Achis, Zoques, etc., who were 
 fpread over nearly the whole of what is now -Gua- 
 temala, Yucatan, Tabafco, Chiapa, and probably 
 Soconufco, as alfo a fmall portion of north-weftern 
 Honduras. 
 
 II, The Nahuatls or Aztecs, who, under the 
 name of Pipils, occupied the greater part of San 
 Salvador from the Rio Lempa upwards, penetrating 
 into the prefent Republic of Guatemala, as far, or 
 
 B 
 
beyond the Rio Michatoyat, and who alfo, were 
 found inipofleffion of the narrow ftrip of land lying 
 between Lake Nicairagua and the Pacific, as far 
 fouthw^d as the Gulf of Nicoya in Cbfta Rica, 
 including the Iflands of the Lake, and probably 
 thofe of the Gulf. 
 
 IIL T^he Chontals .(from the Mexican Chontalii, 
 fignifying ftranger or foreigner), a ruder people than 
 either the Tzendals or.Nahuatls, who inhabited the 
 central and ibuthern parts of Honduras, and the 
 nerthern and weftem portions of Nicaragua, intet- 
 mediately between the Nahuatls of Nicaragua and 
 thofe of San Sah^ador ; including the Lencas, Payas, 
 Uliias on-Woolwas, Maribios, Taulepas, Chorote- 
 gans (?), Nagrandans (?), etc. _ < 
 
 -.. IV. AvG roup of re^latively fa vage Tribes, corre- 
 fpojiding very nearly in rank, if not indeed affiliated 
 with the Guaranis and C^/ibs of the ea'ftern and 
 northern.Provinces of South 'Aimerica, who occu- 
 pied the alluvions of the Atlantic Coaft fouthward^ 
 and were fcattered over the ancient Province, now 
 State : of Cofta -Rica, including the^Waikna^ or 
 MofquitoSi the Talamancas, Buricas, Valierites, 
 Tojares, Urimafias, etc. ■■ii>:;i 
 
 V. The Indians of thq|lfthmus, including thofe 
 of Veraguas (Chiriqui), Panama and Darien, 
 
[xi] 
 
 divided into a great number of tribes with diftind: 
 names, but clofely approximating in condition and 
 charadter, if not in languages. 
 
 Little is known of the Languages of many of 
 thefe Nations or Tribes, and it is not unlikely that , 
 fome here grouped together fpeak languages entirely 
 diftindt, or marked only by fuch common features 
 as feem to pervade all the Aboriginal Languages of 
 America. The Claffification, except in the cafes of 
 the Tzendals and Nahuatls, has been bafed rather 
 upon' contiguity and fimilarity of charadler, con- 
 dition, and developement, than upon any known 
 linguiftical affinities, and is therefore open to great 
 future modifications. It is however with the 
 Tendals (if I may be allowed to ufe this as a generic 
 defignation), that we have moft to do, and in whom, 
 for reafons already given, the world muft have the 
 greateft intereft. Tk- fame reafons made them 
 early the fubjedls of clofe attention and ftudy, par- 
 ticularly in refpedt of their Languages; and hence it 
 is that we know more concerning them, and of 
 their neighbors the Nahuatls, than of all the other 
 Central American Families put together. Their 
 regularly organized Governments, fyftematized Re- 
 ligions, and relatively high Civilization, naturally 
 
[xii] 
 
 interefted the Miffionaries who followed in the fteps 
 of the Conquiftadors in the higheft degree, and 
 infpired them with extraordinary Zeal in acquiring 
 a knowledge of the Languages through which alone 
 they could hope to teach them the true Faith. The 
 lives of thefe Zealots, as recorded in the chronicles 
 of the various Religious Orders, exhauft language 
 and almoft ftagger belief, in recounting to us the 
 rapidity with which they acquired the " barbaras 
 y dificillimas lenguas de los Indios," and the per- 
 fedtion which they attained in them. 
 
 In fpeaking of the difficulties of thefe languages 
 to the European ear and apprehenfion, the Fray 
 Jofeph Antonio Coutiiio tells us, that " El oir eftos 
 " Idiomas con claridad, y el pronunciarlos con dif- 
 " tincion, ha fido fiempre una dificultad cafi infu- 
 " perable : fe componen de vozes tan cerrades y 
 " obfcuros, que mas parecen fonidos de animales, 
 " que vozes humanas articuladas ; unas fon delgadas 
 " y futiles, otras duras y efcabriofas^ unas fon cortas 
 "y preftas; otras eftendidas ydilitadas; y otras tan 
 " interipres y apagadas en la garganta, que a penas 
 " fe perciben en la lengua, y los oidos no perciben 
 " mas que una confucion." And after enumerating 
 a great number of thofe who had diftinguifhed 
 
[ xiii ] 
 themfelves in acquiring the Indian tongues, he adds : 
 " Todos venceiron las dificultades del fracifmo, las 
 " que no fon decibles ; todos efcrivieron cofas grandes 
 " y muy altas, utiles, y neceflarias para la inftruccion 
 " de los Indios, no folo en lo pertineciente a la 
 " Chriftianidad, fino tambien en lo moral, politico, 
 "y natural."' 
 
 With the foundation of the College of Santo 
 Tomas (afterwards San Carlos), in the city of 
 Guatemala, not many years after the Conqueft, there 
 was eftabliflied a department of Indian Languages, 
 particularly the Kachiquel, of which the Fra,y 
 Ildefonfo Jofeph Flores, who publifhed a Grammar 
 
 I Diftamen of the P. Fr. Jofeph , " el llluftriffimo y Exmo. Sefior 
 Antonio Coutino on the Jrte de la " Obifpo que fue del Chile, Don 
 Lengua Metropolitana del Reym " Fr. Juan de Efpinofa. En el fe- 
 Cakchiquel o Guatemaltica, pt el " gundo figlo, los Anleos, los Men- 
 P. F. Ildefonfo Jofeph Flores, etc. " dozas, los Zafles, los Cardenas, 
 Of thofc who wrote and taught in " los Valeras, los Cotos, los Davalos, 
 thefe languages, Coutino fpeaks as " y fobre todos el R. P. Fr. Fran- 
 follows : " cifco Maldonado. Y en efte nu- 
 
 " Los que en efte Apoftolico tra- " eftro ultimo figlo, que corre de 
 
 " bajo dexaron mas nombre fueron " fetecientos, los Rodriguez, los 
 
 " entre otros, en el primer figlo, nu- " Cordovas, los Caftros, Pantaleon 
 
 "eftrosvenerables Padres fundadores " de Guzman, los Quinones, y ul- 
 
 " de Provincia, los Ordofies, los Be- " timamente los Yriondos y los 
 
 " tanzos, los Zalcedos, los Porras, " Utrillas." 
 " los Alvaros de Paz, los Juanes, y 
 
[ xiv ] 
 of the Kachiquel (Guatemala, 1753), and who died 
 in 1772, was one of thelateft ProfefTors. A courfe 
 of ftudy of the Indian Languages was alfo rigidly 
 impofed in i the Convents of the various Religious 
 Orders, which, in this refpedt, maintained an aftive 
 rivalry. Very few however of the Indian Gram- 
 mars, ftudioufly elaborated by thefe untiring Zealots, 
 and none of the Dictionaries which they flowly and 
 labdrioufly compiled, have been publifhed; many 
 have undoubtedly been loft, but a confiderable 
 number, neverthelefs, muft ftill exift in the Conven- 
 tual Archives and other Depofitories of the Country. 
 To facilitate an intelligent fearch for thefe, as alfo 
 to aid Philological Inquiry generally, I have here 
 brought together the names of fuch early, as well 
 as modern authors, who have written on the Lan- 
 guages of Central America, and who have compofed 
 works in the native Dialedts of the country, with 
 the titles of their Works, and fuch Chronological 
 data, and other indications as to their fields of adtion, 
 or the Convents to which they were attached, as I 
 have been able to colledl during ten years of devo- 
 tion to Central American fubjefts. A confiderable 
 part of this Information has been derived from the 
 
[XV] 
 
 Biblioteca Hifpano- Americana Septentrional of Don 
 Jofe Mariano Beriftain de Souza," whofe fyftem of 
 giving names and titles I have followed, as beft 
 adapted for my purpofe. The remainder has been 
 collected through perfonal inveftigation of a few of 
 the Religious and Political Archives of the Country, 
 and a careful collation of the Chronicles of Reme- 
 fal, Vafquez,- Cogolludo, Villiagutierre, Juarros, and 
 the Biographical and other Publications of the 
 various Religious Orders. 
 
 The references to the Central American Lan- 
 guages contained in' the works of the fyfhematic 
 writers on Language, fuch as Balbi, Hervas, Gilii, 
 Adelungand Vater, Bufchmann, etc., are not cited, 
 as it is prefumed that thefe text books are fuffi- 
 ciently well known and acceffible to Inveftigators. 
 
 I This work, in three volumes exiftence ; it is in the poffeffion of 
 
 folio, is by far the moft important Mr. Henry Stevens, of London, 
 
 vifork of the Ifind illiiftrative of the whofe liberality in permitting its ufe 
 
 Literature of Spanift\ North Amer- by Student's is worthy of all praife. 
 ica. I know of but one copy in 
 
AUTHORS. 
 
 CEVEDO, Fray Juan de, native of 
 Navarre; went to America in 1592: 
 was guardian of various Convents, and 
 founder of that of Mejorada Extramu- 
 ros de Merida, Yucatan; died March 
 i», 1624, aged 73 years. He left various 
 Manufcripts, as affirmed by Cogolludo in his 
 Hiftoria de Yucatan, by the padre Lizana in 
 his Devocionario, and by Leon Pinelo in his 
 Biblioteca. 
 
 1. Arte de la Lengua de los Yucat?cos. 
 
 2. Injlrucciones Catequijlicas y Morales para los Indies. 
 
 AGUILAR, Illmo. D. Pedro Sanchez, native of 
 Valladolid in Yucatan : and appointed, a few years 
 fubfequently to 1588, Bifhop of the Province. 
 
 I. Relacion de las Cofas de Yucatan, y Informe contra los Idola- 
 tras del Obifpado de Yucatan, hecha de orden del Rey Fe- 
 lipe III. 1639. 
 
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[ i8 ] 
 
 2. Dofirina Chrijliana en Lengua de Yucatan. 
 
 The latter was approved for publication, but loft at fea on its way to 
 Spain. The Jefuits of Yucatan nev'erthelefs, according to Pinelo, pre- 
 ferved a copy, 
 
 ALONZO, Fray Juan, Dominican, a native of 
 Guatemala. Vafquez is warm in his admiration of 
 Fray Alonzo, whom he defcribes, " as not only a great 
 " minifter in the Mexican language, which he under- 
 " flood as his own mothier tongue, but alfo in the 
 " Kachiquel, which he ftudied with great care, in which 
 " he excelled, and in which he inftru<9;ed others. He 
 "was the firft to write in it," continues Vafquez, 
 /' after N. V. P. Fr. Diego Ordonez, and amoi^ft 
 " the books and documents, for the adminiftration of 
 " the Faith, which he compofed, was a Didtionary in 
 " the Kachiquel Language, which ferved many of the 
 " minifters who came after him, by fome of whom it 
 " was gradually amplified, until it reached its prefent 
 "perfeftion. It is now in our Convent (Francifcan) 
 " and is known as El Calpino." {Vafquez, vol. i, p. 
 6io). 
 
 1. Varios Opufculos Dofirinales en Lengua Tzendal. 
 
 2. Diccionario de la Lengua Kachiquel. 
 
 ANGULO, Fray Pedro, native of Burgos in 
 Spain ; went to America in 1524 as a foldier ; entered 
 the order of St. Dominic in 1529; went with Las 
 Cafas to Peru, Santo Domingo, and Guatemala, whence 
 both went to 'Tuzulutlan, then called Tierra de Guerra, 
 which they converted and named Vera Paz. He 
 founded a Dominican convent in Leon de Nicaragua, 
 and one alfb in Guatemala. He wrote to Charles V., 
 on the bad treatment of the Indians, in 1543 ; in 1561 
 
[ 19 ] 
 
 was made Provincial of the Province of San Vicente de 
 Chiapas, and was foo.n afterwards prefented with the 
 Bifhopric of Vera Paz. He died at Salama in 1661. 
 He was eloquent in the Mexican, and Zacapula or 
 Zutugil languages, and wrote feveral Trafts in the latter 
 diale(5t. 
 
 1. De la Creadon del Mundo. 
 
 2. De la Caida de Adan. 
 
 3. Del dejlierro de los primeros padres. 
 
 ANLEO, Fray Bartolome, Francifcan. 
 
 I. Arte de Lengua Quiche, 
 
 Copied in the year 1744, from the original in the pofleffion of the Pr. 
 Antonio M. Betancur, by the Fray Antonio Ramirez Utrilla. A copy 
 in the Bib. Imp. of Paris ; another in the pofleffion of the author of this 
 Monograph. 
 
 ANONYMOUS. 
 
 1. Vocabulario en Lengua Cajlellana y Guatemalteca, que je 
 
 llama Cak-chi-quel-chi. 
 
 In fmall quarto, very full ; contains between 400 and 500 pages ; 
 without date, but very old. There is aUb a copy of the fame in the 
 Bib. Imp. of Paris, badly made, with a few additions at the end ; 
 evidently quite recent; endorfed as having been obtained from the 
 convent of Papum, and marked, erroneoufly, Kiche. 
 
 2. A fine quarto MS. in Kachiquel ; apparently a tranjlation of 
 
 the Pentateuch ; 202 pages, elegantly and clearly written in 
 the ancient character ; bearing date, at end, 1553. Bib. 
 Imp. of Paris. 
 
 3. Marial Sacro y Santoral : Sermones eti la Lengua Quiche, ej^ 
 
 critos por varies autores, principalmente por un Indio, por 
 lo qual hay mucho que correjir 6 emendar en todos los textos 
 latinos. Pertenece al ujb del Px. Pr. Fr. Je. A'Si. hio de 
 la Sta. Provincia del dulcijjimo nombre de I. H. S. de Gua- 
 temala, ano .1796. 
 
 Endorfed " From ex-cura of San Andres." Bib. Imp. of Paris. 
 
[ 20 ] 
 
 4. A brief Vocabulary of 32 pages, in Quiche, without title, and 
 apparently quite recent. Bib. Imp. of Paris. 
 
 ANTONIO, Caspar, a noble Indian of Yucatan, 
 grandfon of the Cazique Tutulxiu, who fubmitted vol- 
 untarily to the Spaniards, and fon of the blind chief 
 Ahkinchi, whofe eyes were put out by the Cocomes, 
 becaufe he fought to attach them to the Spanifh party. 
 He was royal interpreter to the Tribunals, and enjoy- 
 ed a penfion from the Kings of Spain. He cornpofed, 
 according to CogoUudo and Pinelo : 
 
 I. Vocabulario de la Lengua de Yucatan. 
 
 AROCHENA, Fray Antonio, native of Guate- 
 mala, Francifcan, and Doctor of Theology in the Uni- 
 verfity of San Carlos, Guatemala. 
 
 I. Catalogo y noticia ^e los Escritores del Orden de San Fran- 
 cifco de la Provincia de Guatemala : con tres Indices : i. 
 De los que efcribieron en Latin ; 2. De los que ejcribieron 
 en Cajlellano ; 3. De los que ejcribieron en lengua de los 
 Indios. 
 
 This MS. was ufed by the Bilhop Eguiara in his Bibliography ; De 
 Souza, however, never faw it. 
 
 AVENDANO, Fray Andres, native of old Caf- 
 tile, Francifcan of Burgos, went to Yucatan in 1705 
 with the title of Definidor; wrote according to Eguiara : 
 
 1. Diccionario de la Lengua de Yucatan. 
 
 2. Diccionario abreviado de los advcrbos de tiempo y lugar de la 
 
 Lengua de Yucatan. 
 
 3. Diccionario de nombres de perjbnas, idolos, danzas, y otras 
 
 antigiied^des de los Indios de Yucatan. 
 
 4. Arte para aprender la Lengua de Yucatan. 
 
 5. Diccionario botanico y medico de Yucatan. 
 
[ 21 J 
 
 6. Explicacion de varies Vaticinios de los antiguos Indies de 
 Yucatan. 
 
 AVILA, Fray Agustin, Francifcan ; native of 
 Mercia in Spain ; went to Guatemala, where he refided 
 for forty years. 
 
 I. Libro de la Explicacion de la Doctrina Chrijliana en Lengua 
 Kiche (Quiche). 
 
 According to De Soufa, preferved in the principal convent of Guate- 
 mala. 
 
 AVILES, Fray Esteben, Francifcan of Guatemala. 
 (1663). 
 
 I. Hijloria de Guatemala dejde los tiempos de los Indios, hajla 
 la fundacion de la provincia de los Francifcanos ; poblacion 
 de aquellas tierras, propagacion de los Indios, Jus ritos, cere- 
 monias, policia, y Gobierno. 
 
 According to De Soufa, printed in Guatemala, in 410, in 1663, by- 
 Pineda Ibana. 
 
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 ASSETA, Fray Domingo de, wrote, according to 
 the Abbe Braffeur de Bourbourg : 
 
 1. Vocabulario Quiche-EJpaSol (acabado en 29 de Enero, ano 
 
 1690). 
 
 2. Vocabulario de la Lengua Quiche, accompanied aljb by an 
 
 excellent Vocabulario Quiche-EJpaiiol, in the dialect of 
 Rabinal, with a brief grammar of the jame, and a defeSive 
 Vocabulario Efpaiiol-Quiche. CoUeSively,' theje form a 
 MS. vol. of 500 pages, and are regarded by the Abbe BraJ*- 
 /eur as conJUtuting the mojl complete work in-exijlence, on 
 the Quiche language. 
 
 BELTRAN DE SANTA ROSA, Fray Pedro, 
 Francifcan, native of Merida, Yucatan, and Cuftodian 
 of the Province, etc., wrote a Grammar of the Maya 
 
L 22 J 
 
 Language, which was publifhed in Mexico in 1746, a 
 copy or which, with MS. emendations by Beltran 
 himfelf, is in the pofleflion of the Author of this 
 Monograph. 
 
 I. Arte de el Idioma Maya, reddcidos a jucintas reglas, y Semi- 
 Lexicon Yucateco, etc., 410. pp. 194. 
 Mexico, by Hogal, 1746. 
 
 BENAVENTURA, Fray Gabriel de San, a na- 
 tive of France, Francifcan of Yucatan, where he was 
 miffionary in 1695. He died in Havana, being Com- 
 ifario Vifitador of the Francifcan Convent of that city. 
 
 1. Arte de la Lengua Maya, compuejlo por el R. P. Fr. Ga- 
 
 briel de San Benaventura, predicador y deiinidor habitual de 
 la Provincia de San Jojeph de Yucathan, del Orden de N. 
 P. S. Francifco. Small 4to, p. 82. Endorjed : " Finijhed, 
 Merida, 1675." 
 
 Megico, p&r la Viuda de Bernardo Calderon, 1684. 
 
 2. Diccionario Mayo-Hijpano, 6 Hijpano-Mayo, in three vol- 
 
 umes, containing 1000 pages, in the Library of the Fran- 
 cijcans of Yucatan. - De Souza mentions that it is very full 
 on the medical and botanical produdls of the country. 
 
 BENZONI, GiROLAMo di. 
 
 I. Hijloria del Mondo Nuovo, la qual tratta delle ijble & mari 
 nuovamente retrovati & delle nuove Citta da lui proprio 
 vedute per acqua & per terra in quattordeci anni. 
 Venezia, 1565. 
 
 BETANZOS, Fray Pedro de, a native of Betan- 
 zos de Galicia, was one of the earlieft Francifcan mif- 
 fionaries in Guatemala, and a founder of the Church 
 in Nicaragua, where he died, in the town of Chomez, 
 in the year 1570. He was celebrated for his know- 
 ledge of the native languages, of which, fays Vafquez, 
 
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 " he made various Grammars and Vocabularies. He 
 "was particularly favored by our Saint," continues this 
 author, " in being able to learn with eafe the barbarous 
 " languages of the Indians. He acquired them fo read- 
 " ily that within one year after his arrival, he was, ac- 
 "cording to their own teftimony, as perfe«51:as the natives 
 "themfelves, in the Guatemalteca (Kachiquel), Utlateca 
 " (Quiche), and Tzutugil languages. He alfo wrote 
 "them with fuch perfedlion that, to this hour, it has not 
 "been found neceflary to add a fingle word to his com- 
 " pofitions, nor to take one away," He was alfo ac- 
 quainted with the Mexican (Nahuatl), in which he 
 taught the Indians of Almolonga and Itzcuintla, towns 
 in the vicinity of Guatemala founded by the Mexican 
 auxiliaries of Alvarado, and where that language was 
 fpoken. His acquaintance with this language was, 
 probably, one of his principal qualifications for his 
 fubfequent miffion to Nicaragua, where the Nahuatl 
 was extenfively fpoken. De Souza fays of him, that in 
 all his writings Betanzos ufed the Spanifh word Dios for 
 God, and never the word Cabovil, which the natives ufe 
 todefignate the Divinity. This occafioned a controverfy 
 between the Francifcans and Dominicans of Guatemala, 
 the latter ufing the native defignation Cabovil, and the 
 former Dios. The padre Remefal writes that the Do- 
 minicans were never convinced that they were in error. 
 The Fray Tomas Cafillas, Bifliop of Chiapas, never- 
 thelefs, in his vifit, in the year 1551, ordered that nei- 
 ther in their fermons, in their teachings, nor in their 
 converfations among themfelves, fhould they make ufe 
 of the name Cabovil to de'fignate the Supreme Being. 
 In confirmation of the panegyric of Vafquez, De Souza 
 adds of Betanzos' linguiftical capacities; "Enmenosde 
 ocho anos aprendio catorce Idiomas de los Indios, 6 
 
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 catorce dialeftos, a que fe extienden los tres lenguas 
 principales, Kiche, Kachiquel y Tzutugil de Guate- 
 mala." Betanzos wrote various Grammars andJDic- 
 tionaries, and among others the following work, which, 
 according to De Souza, was printed in Mexico : 
 
 I. Arte, Vocabulario, y Doctrina Chrijliana en Lengua de Gua- 
 temala. 
 
 BETANCUR, Fray Alonzo, Francifcan of Gua- 
 temala. * , 
 
 I . Arte y V,ocabulario de la Lengua de Guatemala. 
 
 BETANCUR, Fray Rodrigo de Jesus, native 
 of Bacas in Guatemala ; Francifcan ; was a companion 
 of the Fray Margil, and founder of the Hofpicio de 
 Propaganda Fide of the city of Granada in Nicaragua. 
 He wrote, according to De Souza, 
 
 I, Tratado de las Superjliciones de los Indios de Matagalpa, 
 Xinotega, Muimui y otras del partido de Sevaco, y de los 
 diferentes enredos con que el Demonio engana a los que fe 
 llaman Brujos. 
 
 BRUTON or BUITRON, Fray Juan Luque, 
 native of Guatemala, parifh prieft of the Pueblo of 
 Retalulei. 
 
 1. Catecijmo de la do^irina Chrijliana en Lengua Kiche. 
 
 According to De Souza this Catechifm was printed, but lie was unable 
 to afcertain when or where. It is probably the fame with the book men- 
 tioned by the Abbe Brafleur, under the following title : 
 
 2. ConfeJJionario y Oraciories, etc., en Lengu^ Kiche, por el R. 
 
 P, Juan Luque Buitron, Guatemala, 1752. 
 
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 GANGER, Fray Luis, native of Balbaftro in 
 Aragon, of the Order of Predicadores Domini- 
 canos. He was one of the firft who went to America, in 
 company with Las Cafas and Angulo, and defended the 
 liberty of the Indians in the Junta of BifKops, 
 which was held in Mexico in 1546. He was the firft 
 to enter Vera Paz, then called "Tierra de la Guerrd, 
 where he labored devotedly for a number of years. 
 He was afterwards fent as Miffionary to Florida, but, 
 with his companions, was killed, on landing, by the 
 Indians, in the year 1549. 
 
 I. Varias Canciones en Verjb Zapoteco [Zacapula?'] fobre los 
 Mijlerios de la Religion, para el ujb de los Neofitos de la 
 Vera Paz. 
 
 CARRANCA, Fray Diego de, Dominican, born 
 in Mexico in the year 1559 ; was fent, foon after taking 
 orders to Nejapa in the diocefe of Oaxaca in order to 
 learn the Zapoteca language. He labored for twelve 
 years as a Miffionary amongft the Indians called Chon- 
 tals, and died in JSuadalcazar or Tehuantepec. Wrote 
 according to Pinelo the following work, which was 
 printed in Mexico : 
 
 I. DoSrina Chrijiiana, y Exercidos Ejpirituales y Sermones, en 
 Lcngua Chontal. 
 
 CARDENAS, Don Francisco, native of Mexico, 
 was named by the Biftiop of Yucatan, Judge againft 
 the Crime of Idolatry. 
 
 I. Relacion de la Conquijla y Sucejbs de Yucatan, para el ujb 
 del Cronijla Mayor de las Indias, D. Tomas Taniayo de 
 Vargas ; acabada en 1639. 
 
 Alfo an Ecclefiaftical Relation, in virtue of the Royal Cedula of 1635. 
 Both exilled in the library of Barcia, 
 
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 CARDENAS, Fray Pedro, Francifcan, native of 
 Guatemala; Definidor of the Order in 1654; left 
 various doctrinal books in the Indian languages. 
 
 CARDENASi Illmo. D. Fr. Tomas, native of 
 Andalucia, Dominican, went to America in- the year 
 1553 as Miffionary amongft the Indians of Zacapula 
 in Guatemala, and was fubfequently made Biftiop of 
 Vera Paz. Died in the year 1580 in the Dominican 
 Convent of Coban. 
 
 1. Do3rina Crijliana y documentos morales y politicos en Lengua 
 
 Zacapula. 
 
 2. Reprejcntadones al Rey Jbbre el Ejlado de los Pueblos de 
 
 Vera Paz. 
 
 CASTELAR, Fray Tomas, Dominican, was in- 
 ftrudlor of Theology in the College of S. Luis de la 
 Puebla, and afterwards a Miffionary. According to 
 De Souza, wrote 
 
 1. Tratado de los Idolos de Guatemala. 
 
 2. Trinufos de los Martires del Orden de Predicadores en las 
 
 Indtas. Pr. in 1580. 
 
 CIPRIANO, Fray Salvador, Dominican ; native 
 of Guatemala. 
 
 1. Libro de los Idolos de la Provincia de Zacapula, en Lengua 
 
 Zacapula. 
 
 2. Hechos de los P. P. Frs. Luis Cancer, Bartolome de Las 
 
 Cajas, y Pedro Angulo, en la predicacion del Evangelio. 
 
 3. Hijloria de la Entrada de los Efpanoles en Zacapula. 
 
 De Soufa obferves that the laft two feem to have been united, but that 
 it is uncertain if they were likewife written in the Zacapiila language, 
 which is another name for the Zutugil. 
 
CIUDAD REAL, Fray Antonio, native of La 
 Mancha, Francifcan, went to America in 1573 with 
 Diego Landa, Bifhop of Yucatan, and foon acquainted 
 himfelf with the languages of the Indians. Was after- 
 wards eleded Provincial of Yucatan ; died- in the 
 year 1617. 
 
 1. Gran Diccionario 6 Calepino de la Lengua Maya de' Yucatan, 
 
 en Jeis Tomos en folio. MS. 
 
 This exifted,. according to Don Nicolas Antonio, in the Library of the 
 Duke del Infantado, although a portion of the original is preferved in the 
 Francifcap Convent of Merida. According to CogoUudo this work coft 
 the Author forty years of labor. 
 
 2. Sermones de Santos en Lengua Maya. MS. in 410, 
 
 3. Tratado Curiofo de las Grandezas de Nueva Efpafia. 
 .. The laft named is mentioned both by CogoUudo and Pinelo. 
 
 COGOLLUDO, Fray Diego, native of Alcala 
 in Spain, where he joined the Order of the Francifcans 
 Defcalzos, in 1629. In Yucatan he was Ledbor de 
 Teologia, Guardian, and finally Provincial of the fame 
 Order. He made a particular ftudy of the antiquities 
 of the country, political and ecclefiaftical, examined 
 Archives, etc., and finally publifhed his famous Hiftory 
 entitled 
 
 I. Hijloria de Yucathan, etc. Folio, pp. 760. Madrid, 1688. 
 
 CORONEL, Fray Juan, Francifcan, graduated at 
 the Univerfity of Alcala in Spain, went to Yucatan in 
 the year 1590, where he learned and publicly taught 
 the -language of the Indians. He was one, of the 
 difciples of the Chronicler CogoUudo. He was guard- 
 ian of the Recoiled Convent of Mejorada, and died 
 in one of the Convents of Merida, in the year 1651, 
 aged 82 years. 
 
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 1. Arte para aprender la Lengua Maya. 
 According to Cogolludo, printed in Mexico. 
 
 2. Dijcurfos predicables, con otros diverfos materias ejpirituales, 
 
 con la DoSrina Xpfia, y los Articulos de la Fe ; recopilados 
 y Emendados por el P. Fr. Juan Coronel, del Orden Sera- 
 phico Padre S. Francifco, Guardian del Gonvcnto de Tikax, 
 y leSor de la Lengua, etc. izmo, pp. 241. Megico, 1620. 
 
 3. Doflrina Chrijliana en Lengua Maya, recopilada, etc., etc., 
 
 por P. Fr. Juan Coronel, etc. i2mo, pp. 46. Megico, 
 1620. 
 
 According to the Fr. Juan de San Antonio, in the Biblioteca Fran- 
 cifcana, there exifts in the library of San Benaventura de Sevilla, letter 
 M., No. 165, a MS. Doilrina Criftiana, by this Author, more complete 
 than that publilhed in Mexico. ' ' 
 
 CORRAL, D. Felipe Ruiz, of the College of St. 
 Thomas of Guatemala ; was Canon of the Church, 
 and. Dean from 1604 to 1636, in which year he died. 
 
 I. Arte y Yocabulario para ujb de los Curas de Guatemala. 
 
 Accordii% to De Souza this work is preferved in the Archives of the 
 Church in Guatemala. According to other authorities. Corral wrote a 
 woric. Arte y Vocabulario de la Lengua de Guatemala, which was 
 printed. Whether the fame with that mentioned above, is unicnown. 
 
 COSIO, Don Toribio, Marques de Torre Campa, 
 Prefident of the Royal Audiencia of Guatemala ; 
 undertook in 1,712 the fubjugation of the rebellious 
 Tzendales of Chiapas, and having fucceflFully reduced 
 them, was rewarded with a title, and the office of 
 Captain, General of Philippine Iflands, whither he went 
 in 1716. 
 
 I. Relacion Hijlorica de la Sublevacion y Pacificacion de la 
 Provincia de los Tzendales. 
 
 This work, according to De Souza, exifts in MS. in the Library of the 
 Univerfity of the city of Mexico. 
 
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 COTO, Fray Tomas, Francifcan, native of Guate- 
 mala ; left in the library of the principal Convent of 
 that Province; a volume entitled 
 
 I. Thefaurus Vcrbofum : 6 Frajes y Elegancias de la Lengua de 
 Guatemala. 
 
 CRUZ, Fray Juan, one of the firft Auguftins of 
 M«xico ; devoted all his ftudy and zeal to the inftruc- 
 tion of the Huafteca Indians. Was Prior of the Con- 
 vent of Huejutla, and wrote 
 
 I. Catedjmode la DoSrina Chrijliana, en Lengua Huajleca. 410. 
 Mexico, 1 57 1, and again in 1689. 
 
 COTHEAL, Alx. J. 
 
 I. A Grammatical Sketch of the Language fpoken by the In- 
 dians of the Mojquito Shore ; Trans. American Ethnological 
 Society, vol. ii, pp. 235-264. 
 
 CULLEN, I>R. Edward. 
 
 I. Vocabulary of the Cholo Language of the IJlhmus of Darien ; 
 your. Roy. Gepg. Soc. of London, vol. xx, p. 190. 
 
 D 
 
 AVALOS, Fray Luis, Francifcan, native of 
 Guatemala. 
 
 I. Sermones de Quarejma y Fcjlividades, en Idioma Kiche. 
 
 DELGRADO, Fray Damian, of the Order oif 
 Predicadores of the provinces of Chiapas and Guate- 
 mala. 
 
 I. Arte y Diccionario de las Lenguas Quiche y Kachiquel. 
 
 Alfo, according to De Souza, two volumes of Sermons in the fame. 
 
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 DIEZ, Fray Jose ; Francifcan ; was Guardian of 
 the Propaganda College of the city of Queretaro in 
 Mexico, .in the year 1705 ; died in the year 1722. 
 
 1. Noticia de las Mijlones de Guatemala. 
 
 2. Noticias de la Conquijla de las Talamancas de Cojla Rica. 
 
 DOMINGUEZ Y ARGAIZ, Dr. Don Fran- 
 cisco EUGENIO. 
 
 I. Platica de los Frincipales Myjlerios de Nuejlra Sta Fee, con 
 una breve exortacion de fin del modo con que deben excitafje 
 al doler de las culpas. Hechas en el Idioma Yucateco, per 
 Orden del lUmo. y Rmo. Sr. Dr. y Mro. D. F. Ignacio 
 de Padilla, del Sagrado Orden de San Augujlin, dignijjimo 
 Arzobijpo de ejlas Provincias de Yucatan, y de el Conjej'o 
 defu Magijiad. For el Dr. D. Francijco Eugenio Domin- 
 guez, y Argaiz, Cura propriO de la Farrochial de Sto. 
 Nombre de Jejus intramuros de la Ciudad, y Examinador 
 Synodal del Obifpado de Yucatan, quien las dedica al dicho 
 Illmo. y Rmo. Senor, etc., etc. Small 4to, pp. 25, 
 
 Mexico, Imprenta del Real Colegio de S. Ildefonfo, aSo 1758. • 
 
 ESCALONA, Fray Alonso, native of Efcalona 
 in the Bifhopric of Toledo, Francifcan, went 
 to New Spain in 1531 ; learnt the Mexican language 
 in Tlafcalla; in 1554 was fent to Guatemala, whence 
 he finally returned in 1562! In 1568 was elefted Pro- 
 vincial of Mexico, where he died in 1584. At the 
 age of 75 years he learnt, in a few months, the Achi 
 language of Guatemala. Wrote the following works, 
 which he alfo tranflated into the languages of Guate- 
 mala : 
 
 I. Sermones en Lengua Megicana, que tradujo dejpues a la Achi 
 Guatemalteca. 
 
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 2. Comcntario Jbbre los diez preceptbs del Decalogo e.n Lengua 
 Megicana. 
 
 ESPINO, Fray ITernando ; native of Honduras ; 
 Franclfcan of Guatemala. 
 
 I. Hijloria de la reducdon y converfion de la Provincia de Ta- 
 guzgalpa, con la Vida de los tres Martires. 
 
 Printed in Guatemala, by Ibarra, 1674. 
 
 FELLECHNER, MULLER and HESSE, 
 Commiffioners of Prince Charles of Pruflia on 
 the Mofquito fhore. 
 
 I. Uber die Sprache der Mojquito-Indianer ; with a Vocabulary, 
 pp. 241-274, of Bertcht uher des Mofquito Landes, Berlin, 
 1845. 
 
 FLORES, Fr. Ildefonso Joseph, a native of 
 Guatemala, Francifcan, Profeffor of the Kachiquel 
 language in the Univerfity of San Carlos in the city 
 of Guatemala; died in 1772. 
 
 1. Arte de la Lengua Metropolitana del Reyno Cakchiquel, 6 
 
 Guatemalico, con un Paralelo de las Lenguas Metropolitanas 
 de los Reynos Kiche, Cakehiquel, y Zutuhil, que hoy inte- 
 gran el Reyno de Guatemala. Gompuejlo por el P. F. 
 Ildefonjo JoJeph'Flores, hijo de la Santa Provincia del Dul- 
 cijjime Nombre de Jejus de Guatemala, de la Regular Ob- 
 Jervancia de N. Seraphico P. S. Frandjco, Ex-lcSor de 
 Phylojbphia, Predicador, y Cura DoSrincro por el Real 
 Patronato del Pueblo de Santa Maria de Jejiis. En Gua- 
 temala,' per Sebajlian de Arebalo, ano de 1753. ^^^^^ 4to, 
 pp. 387. 
 
 2. Teologia de los Indies, 
 
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 FUENTES Y GUZMAN, Capt. Don Fran- 
 cisco Antonio, was Regidor of the Ayuntamiento de 
 Guatemala; wrote a Hiftory of Guatemala, bearing date 
 1 690, with the following title : 
 
 I. Recordacion Florida ; Dijcurjb hijlorico, natural, material, 
 militar, y politico del Reyno de Guatemala. 
 
 This work exifts in MS. in the Archives of the Cabildo of Guatemala, 
 and is fuppofed to contain much information bearing on the hiftory and 
 languages of the Aborigines. 
 
 GAGE, Fray Thomas, an Englifh Monk, who 
 went to Mexico in the year 1625, and fubfe- 
 quently to Guatemala. 
 
 I. A new Survey of the Wefl. Indies, etc., with a Grammar, or 
 jbme few Rudiments of the Indian tongu^ (of Guatemala), 
 called Poconchi or Pocoihan. 
 
 London, 1699, 
 
 GALINDO, Col. Don Juan, an Officer in fervice 
 of the late Republic of Central America. 
 
 1. Notice of the Caribs in Central America, with a brief vocabu- 
 
 lary of theif language ; Journal Ray. Geog. Soc. of London, 
 vol. ill, p. 290. 
 
 2. Brief Kachiquel Vocabulary ; Bulletin Geog. Soc. of Paris, 
 
 1832, p. 198 ; aljb a Vocabulary of the dialeS Jpoken by 
 the Indians of Flores, lake Peten'(Maya) ; lb. 
 
 3. A Vocabulary of the Punfiunc dialeS fpoken in the vicinity of 
 
 Palehque ; Journal Roy. Geog. Soc. of London, vol. iii, p. 63. 
 
 GOMEZ, Fray Francisco ; native of Valladolid 
 m Spain ; came to America in 1 533, and went to 
 Guatemala with the Fray Alonzo Efcalona in the year 
 following, Torquemada fays of him, " En aquella 
 
[33 ] 
 
 "tierra (Guatemala), aprendio brevemente la Lengua 
 "Achi ; que es la de fus Naturales, y muy difficultuofa 
 "deaprender, porque le avia comunicado Dios el don 
 "delenguas, que refiere fu Apoftol S. Pablo, y en elk 
 "aprovecho algunos afios." 
 
 GRIJELMO, Fray Domingo, went to Mexico 
 in 1528, deftined for the converfipn "de la ferocifima 
 " Nacion Chontal, cuya Lengua aprendio felizmente:" 
 died in the year 1582; wrote Sermons, etc., in the 
 Zapoteca Language. " 
 
 GUEVARA, Fray Juan, Cura of Mextitlan, and 
 "perfedt in that difficult language, the Huafteca." 
 
 I. DoSrina Chrijliana en Lengua Huajleca. 
 
 This was printed in Mexico, as is affirmed by the Fr. Juan Cruz, in 
 the dedication to his Catecifmo Huajieco. 
 
 GUZMAN, Fray Pantaleon de ; mentioned by 
 Coutino as amongft thofe who had moft diftinguifhed 
 themfelves in the 17th century in maftering the diffi- 
 culties of the Indian Languages of Central America. 
 The only known works of Guzman are the following, 
 of which the originds are in the poffeffion, of the 
 Author of this Monograph. 
 
 1. Compendio de Nombres en Lengua Qakchiquel, y Significados 
 
 de Verbos por. Imperativo y Acjijativo recipricos : en doce 
 Tratados, por el Pe. Predicador F. Pantaleon de Guzman, 
 Cura DoSrinero por el Real Patronata dejla DoHrina, y 
 Curato de Santa Maria de Jejus Pache ; en 20 dias delmes 
 de OSubre, de 1704 afios. 
 
 2. DoSrina Chrijliana y dos Roman9es al Nadmiento de Chrijlo, 
 
 etc. 
 
 E 
 
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 HENDERSON, Alexander, Proteftant Mif- 
 fionary in Belize (Britifh Honduras). 
 
 I. Grammar of the Mofquito Language, 8vo, pp. 48. 
 New York, 1846. 
 
 I 
 
 RONDO, Fray Juan Francisco ; Francifcan of 
 Guatemala. 
 I. Expofidon del Simbolo de San Atanajio, en Idoma Kachiquel. 
 
 JUARROS, Don Domingo ; born in Guatemala in 
 the year 1752. 
 
 I . Compendio de la Hijloria de Guatemala, etc. 
 
 Guatemala, 1808-18 18. 
 
 This work contains many references to the native languages of Central 
 America. ' 
 
 LARIOS DE LA CRUZ, Fray Geronimo, 
 Dominican. He was the firft to preach in the 
 Mam or Mame language, and according to Remefal, 
 wrote 
 
 I. Arte de la Lengua, Mame. (Mexico, 1607.) 
 
 LARA, Illmo. Domingo de ; went to America 
 with the celebrated Las Cafas, whom he was appointed 
 to fucceed, but died before confecration, in the Con- 
 vent of Copanabaftla, in the year 1572. 
 
 I. Yocabulario deja Lengua de Chiapa. 
 
 LAZARO, Fray Juan, Francifcan, native of "Spain ; 
 went to America in 1610, died in Guatemala in 1650, 
 *' after forty years fpent in inftru<aing the Indians, and 
 
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 " in acquiring their languages, which he did perfeftly, 
 " underftanding upwards of twenty." He was buried 
 in the Church of Guitiupan or Huei-TeOpan, that is 
 to fay the great Church of God. He wrote many 
 ■Grammars and Diftionaries, and many Sermons in the 
 Indian languages. Vafquez in his Chronicle, and 
 Arochena in his Catalogue, make mention of a work 
 written by him, entitled 
 
 I. Combinacion y Analogia de diver jbs Idiomas del Reyno de 
 Guatemala. 
 
 LIZANA, Fray Bernardo, native of Toledo in 
 Spain, went to Yucatan in 1606; learned and taught 
 publicly the Maya language in Merida. Died in 
 Mexico,nP63i, aged 50 years. 
 
 1. Hijloria de la Provincia de Yucatan, y Ju Conquijla Ejpi- 
 
 ritual. 8vo. 
 Valladolid, 1633. 
 
 2. Hi/loria de Nuejira Senora de Izamal. (Printed). 
 
 LIZARRAGA, D. Nicolas. 
 
 I. Reprejentacion al Rey pidiendole la Conquijla de Itza y La- 
 candon, con unas Noticias y Mapa de dichas Tierras. 
 
 MS. in the Library of Barcia. 
 
 LOPEZ, Fray Melchor de Jesus ; Francifcari ; 
 born in Toledo, in the year 1639 ; went to America in 
 1683 ; preached in Mexico, Puebla, Michoacan, Yu- 
 catan, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua; died in 
 the city of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in the year 1698. 
 
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 1. Relacion de la Converjion a la Fe de los Indies de Talamanca ; 
 
 dirijida al Sr. D. Jacinto Barrios Leal, Prejidente de Guate- 
 mala, aiio 1690. 
 
 2. Relacion de la Padflcacion de los Indios de Vera Paz. 
 
 MALDONADO, Fray Francisco, Francifcan, 
 wrote in 1 67 1, 
 
 I. Sermones y Panegiricos en Lengua Cakchiquelche. 
 
 MARROQUIN, Fray. Francisco, native of Ofma 
 in Spain, went to America with Don Pedro de Alva- 
 rado ; accompanied him in his Conqueft of Guatemakj 
 of which Kingdom he was firft Vicar General, and 
 afterwards, in 1533, Bifhop. Died in 1563.^ 
 
 Remefal (lib. iii, cap, vii), fpeaks with warm praife 
 of the proficiency of the Bifhop of Marroquin in the 
 languages of Guatemala. According to this authority, 
 he inftru6led Las Cafas and th€ friars Luis Cancer and 
 Pedro de Angulo, as well as the Dominicans generally, 
 with great diligence and care in all "the declenfions, 
 "conjugations and principfes of the Grammars of the 
 "natives." He was the firft to write in the "Utlateca 
 "language, vulgarly called Quiche," into which he trans- 
 lated the Dodrina Chriftiana, "which, for the com- 
 "mon good, was printed by his order in Mexico^ in 
 "the year 1556, and although the title," continlies 
 Remefal, " fets forth that the work was eflTedted with 
 "the help of the friars Juan de Torres and, Pedro de 
 "Santos, of the Francifcan and Dominican orders re- 
 "fpeftiyely, yet this was owing to the humility of the 
 "Bifhop, who could readilywrite in the native tongue 
 "without their aid, but who was anxious to have the 
 
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 "terms ufedin the tranflation fatiffaftory to both orders, 
 "as thefe fometimes differed as to the renderings." Mar- 
 roquin was a Dominican, and Remefal records, as a thing 
 greatly to his credit, as a fcholar in the native languages, 
 that in 1612, when the Fr. Juan Cabeza, Francifcan, 
 was Bifhop of Guatemala, it was decided by him and 
 a council of learned clergy, that Marroquin's rendering 
 of the^difputed phrafe "Communion of the Saints" 
 was "the moft legitimate and proper poffible." ^ Be- 
 fides the Arte and Dodtrina mentioned below, Marro- 
 quin feems to have conipiled a Kachiquel diftionary. 
 At any rate, his name appears at the end of a copy of 
 a Kachiquel diftionary in my poffeffion, as alfo at the 
 end of another.in the Imperial Library of Paris. Both 
 of thefe however, are copies of a fingle original. 
 
 . I. DoSrina Chrijliana y Gatedjmo en Lengua Utlateca (QuicW), 
 por Fr. Francifco Marroquin, Obijpo , de Guatemala. 4to, 
 Mexico, aiio 1556. 
 
 2. Arte para Aprender las Prindpales Idiomas de Guatemala. 
 
 MARTINEZ, Fray Marcos, Dominican of 
 Mexico in 1557: went to Guatemala when he was 
 Vicar of Comitlan ; died in the year 1608, in the con- 
 vent of Coban. 
 
 I. Arte de Lengua Utlateca (Quiche). » 
 
 Remefal faw this, in the Francifcan Convent of Totonicapan. 
 
 MARTINEZ, Fray Maria. 
 I. Arte dc la Lengua Utlateca (Quiche). 
 
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 MEN A, Fray Carlos, native of Valladolid de 
 Yucatan, Francifcan, guardian of the convent of Mon- 
 (^cha. According to both Pinelo and CogoUudo, 
 wrote 
 I. Sermones y Opufculos piadofos en Lengua Yucateca. 
 
 MENDOZA, Fray Juan, Francifcan of New 
 Spain, taught theology in Guatemala, where he died 
 in 1 6 1 9 ; wrote, according to Arochena ; 
 
 1. DoSrina Chrijliana en Lengua Mexicana. 
 
 2. Flos Sandiorum, 6 Vida de los Santos, en Lengua Kachiquel. 
 
 3. Platicas doSrinales fobre los Evangelios de todo el ano, en 
 
 Lengua Kachiquel. 
 
 MORAN, Fray Francisco, Dominican ; men- 
 tioned by Vafquez as having ufed in the compofition 
 of his works, the charafters invented by Parra. 
 
 I. Arte de la Lengua Cholti (Chorti?) 
 
 TyTARCISO, J. 
 
 I. Arte de la Lengua Maya (?), Madrid, 1838. 
 
 NORMAN, B. M. 
 
 I, A brief Maya Vocabulary with numerals annexed ; Rambles 
 in Yucatan, pp. 79-90. 
 
 OLMOS, Fray Andrew de, Francifcan of Burgos: 
 went to Mexico with ZumarragaL from 1528 to 
 1 571 was a miffionary amongft the Indians, whofe lan- 
 guages he had a great facility for acquiring, viz: Mexi- 
 can, Totonaca, Huaxteca, and Tepehuane. He tra- 
 
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 veiled over Mexico from the mountains of Tuzapan, 
 through Huaxteca-to Panuco and Florida : died 8th 
 of Oct., 1571, in Tampico. According to De Souza he 
 wrote, Arte de la Lengua Megicana, printed in Mexico 
 in 1555, and dedicated to the Biftiop of TIaxcala, D. 
 Fr. Martin de Hojacaftro, Comifario General de Nueva 
 Efpana, " De efta arte aprovecho Torquemada par 
 "aprender bien efte Idioma y pbder enfenarlo a otros." 
 According to fame authority he compofed Arte, Vocah- 
 ulario, Catecijm-o, Confefonario, y Sermones Huaxtecos : 
 and according to Pinelo, 'Tratado de las Antiguedades 
 Megicanas. In the Library of the Sta. Iglefia de 
 Toledo is a MS. of the Arte y Vocabulario Megi- 
 ^canos of Olmos, and Eguiara faw the priginal in the 
 ■ town of Tlanepautla. Betancur aflerts that the Opaf- 
 culos Huaxtecos were preferved in Ozolvama, a town 
 near Tampico. And De Souza affirms that he few the 
 greater part of his compofitions, fermons, etc., in 
 Mexican, in the College of San Gregorio in Mexico. 
 The Arte de la Lengua Megicana exifts in MS. in 
 the Imperial Library of Paris, fmall 4to. of 220 pages, 
 beautifully written in charadters of the i6th century. 
 On page 112 is this endorfement: " Fue hecha efta arte 
 en St. Andres, con venta de San Francifco en Uey tlalhapa, 
 a gloria de N. S. J. C. ano de fu nacimiento de 1547." 
 Another and probably an older if not the original copy, 
 is in the pofleffion of M. Aubin of Paris. It has 
 notes by the celebrated Las Cafas, Bifhop of Chiapas, 
 and feems to have been the one referred to by Torque- 
 mada. Olmos compofed alfo a Grammar and Didtion- 
 ary of the Totonaca language, a copy of which was in 
 the collediion of the late. Dr. Uhde of Heidleburgh, 
 Germany. Alfo, Grammatica et Lexicon Lingua Mexi- 
 cans, Totonaqua et Huajiecte, which was printed in 
 Mexico in i<6o, in 2 vols. 4to, 
 
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 ONEIL 6 ONYELLI, Arturoj Brigadier in the 
 Spanifh Service, and Governor of the. Province of 
 Yucatan; 
 
 I. Defcripdon, Poblacion, y cenjbde la Provincia de Yucatan en 
 la Neuva EJpaiia. MS. del afio 1795. 
 
 « 
 
 Copy in the Library of the Cathedral of Rlexico, vol. 34 of Providen- 
 cias y Difcurfos.- , 
 
 ORDONEZ, Fray Diego, Francifcan, native of 
 Salamanca, went to Guatemala, where he was principal 
 ofthe convent of San Francifco; died in 1607, aged 117 
 years. According to Vafquez, he was the firft to write 
 in the Kachiquel lattguage. "He took," fays this, 
 chronicler, "great pains to qualify himfelf to write in 
 "the KachiqUel, which is theuniverfal language of this 
 "province (Guatjemala) as well as in the Kicheand Zu- 
 "tuhil, which have much eonnedtion with it. * * He 
 "compofed many books of fermons in this language, of 
 "which I have feen four volumes thatftill exift and are 
 "in ufe in this province." (Vol. i, p. 511.) 
 
 1. DoSrina dogmatica, en Lengua de Guatemala, para injlruir a 
 
 los Indies. 
 
 2. Exhortaciones, etc., in the jame language, and aljb two 
 
 volume^ "Sermones Panegirecos y Morales." 
 
 PALACIO, Dr. Don Diego Garcia de, Oyder of 
 the Royal Audiencia of Guatemala, and fubfe- 
 quently Oyder ofthe Audiencia of Mexico. In 1576 
 addreffed a Memoir to the King of Spain, giving an 
 account of Guatemala, a lift of the languages fpoken by 
 the Indians in its borders, etc., entitled; 
 
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 I. Carta dirijida al Rey de Ejpaiia, por el Liccnciado Don Diego 
 Garcia de Palacio, Oydor de la Real Audiehcia de Guate- 
 mala, aao 1576, 
 
 Publiflied in the original, with Englifh tranflation and Notes, by E. G. 
 Squier, M. A., etc.. New York, i860. Small 4to, pp. 132. 
 
 PAHRA, Fray Francisco de la, Francifcan, na- 
 tive of Galicia ; went to Guatemala, where he died, in 
 1560. He was learned in the native languages and 
 made, according to Vafquez, "the wonderful invention 
 " of five charafters, letters^ or elements," to exprefs 
 founds common to the "Kiche, Kachiquel, andZutugil" 
 languages. Thefe charaders were 
 
 iU^^- 
 
 Vocabulario Trilinguc Guatemalteco de los tres principales 
 Idiomas, Kachiquel, Quiche, y Tzutuchil (Zutugil), which 
 is, or was, in the Library of the Convent of San Francijco, 
 Guatemala. 
 
 PAZ, Fr. Alonzo, Francifcan; a native of Guate- 
 mala; died in the conventof Momoftenango, in 1610. 
 Vafquez fays of him: "Supo con eminencia quatro 
 " lenguas, que fon Cakchiquel, Quiche, Zutugil, y 
 " Mexicana, predicando en ellas magillralmente porque 
 "fue confumado en cada una dellas. En la Cakchiquel 
 "fue maeftro, que la leyo y enfefio a los Religiofos, y 
 "en ella efcribio un libro, que intitulo Scala Ccsli." 
 (Vol. i, p. 616.) 
 
 I. Ejcala del Cielo, en la Lengua Kachiquel, 
 
 F 
 
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 PINELO, Antonio Leon de. 
 
 Relacion que en el Cohfejo Real de las Indias hizo el Licen- 
 • ciado Antonio de Leon Pinelo, Relator de jii Alteza, jbbre 
 
 la paciflcacipn, y poblacion de las Provincias del Manche, i 
 
 Lacandon, etc. 1639. 
 
 R 
 
 EINOSO, Fray Diego, Miffionary of the Mili- 
 tary Order of Nueftra Senora, wrote 
 
 I. Arte, Vocabulario, Confejbnario y Manual de Sacramentos en 
 Lengua Mamc, 410. Printed by Robledo in Mexico, 1644. 
 
 " In this Language," fayi De Souza, " which- is of the Kingdom of 
 Guatemala, ^, is water j Chi, is foft; Mama, old; Man, father; Xuub, 
 woman"; Kol, evil ; Kih, fun ; Kiuvil, God." 
 
 REMESAL, Fray Antonio de. 
 
 J. Hijloria de la Provincia de Chyapa y Guatemala de la Orden 
 de Santo-Domingo, efcrivenje Juntamente los principios de 
 las demas Provincias dejla Religion de las Indias-Occident- 
 ales y lo jecular de la Governacion de Guatemala, por, etc 
 
 Madrid, 1619. 
 
 RIB AS GASTELU, Fray Diego, native of 
 Guatemala, of the Order of La Merced, Comendador 
 of the Convent of Guatemala, 
 
 I. Gramatica de la Lengua de los Lacandones. 
 
 RODRIGUEZ, Fray Juan, native of Cordova, 
 Francifcan of Guatemala ; " perfeA in the Kachiquel 
 " Language ;" wrote 
 
 I. Arte y Vocabulario de la Lengua Kachiquel, 
 
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 RUZ, Fray Joaquin. 
 
 1. El Dcvoto Injlruido en el Santo Sacrificio de la Mija, por el 
 
 P. Luiz Lanzi de la Compania de Jejus ; traducion Hbre de 
 Idioma Yucateco, por el P. Fr. Joaquin Ruz. Small 410, 
 p. 18. 
 
 Merida dO^ucatan, 1835. 
 
 2. _ Gramatica Yucateca, formada para la injlrucdon de los Indi- 
 
 genas jbbre el compendio de Don Diego Narcijb Herranz y 
 Quiroz. i8mo. 
 Merida de Yucatan, 1844. 
 
 3. Catecifmo y Efpojicion breve de la do8rina Crijliana del Padre 
 
 Ripalda, traduddo al Idioma Yucateco. 'i8mo. 
 Merida de Yucatan, 1 847. 
 
 SALCEDO, Fray Francisco, Francifcan ; native 
 of Ciudad Real de Chiapa. He knew the Mexi- 
 can language, according to Vafquez, from having been** 
 born in Chiapa, and obtained a knowledge of the Zotzil 
 and Zptzlem, from having accompanied the Bifliop of 
 Chiapa, Thomas CafiUas, in his vifits to the different 
 diftri(3:s of his diocefe. "He knew alfo, in perfedtion, 
 " the three principal languages of Guatemala, the 
 " Cakchiquel, ^ichi or UtlatecUy and the Tzutuhil or 
 " Atiteca." In confequence of his profound acquaint- 
 ance with thefe languages, he was called to Guatemala 
 where he was made Catedratico de Lenguas Indias, a.nd 
 where he taught them publicly for manyyears. Hecom- 
 pofed a number of Grammars and Dictionaries, befides 
 various DoSirinas Criftianas, and other works in the 
 languages which he taught, viz : the Mexican, Kachi- 
 quel. Quiche, and Zutugil, fome of which, according 
 to De Souza, exift in MS. in the Francifcan Convent 
 of Guatemala. 
 
 I. Arte y Diccionario de la Lengua Mexicana. 
 
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 SANTO-DOMINGO, FrayAlonzo de. 
 I. Vocabulario de la Lengua Cackchiquel. 
 
 MS., i4oieaves in 410, in pofleffion of' the Abbe Brafleur. 
 
 SAZ, Fray Antonio, Francifcan of Guatemala ; a 
 native of Chiapa. || 
 
 I. Adidones al Arte de Ik Lengua de Guatemala, para Utilidad 
 de los Indies, y Como'didad de jus Minijlros. 
 MS., according to De Souza, in Francifcan Convent of Guatemala. 
 
 SCHERZER,"Dr. Karl. 
 
 1. Sprache der Tlajcaltekas Indianer (Mexicanijch), im Dorfe 
 
 IJalco, San Salvador. 
 
 2, Sprache der Indianer von Ixtlavacan (Quiche), von Quejalte- 
 
 nango, Guatemala. 
 
 5. Sprache der Indianer von Palin (Poconchi), Guatemala. 
 
 4. Sprache der Indianer von Sta. Maria (Pupuluca-Kachiquel), 
 
 nach Antigua Guatemala. 
 
 5. Sprache der wilden Indianer-Jlamme der Blancos, Valientes, 
 
 und Talamancos, im Staate Cojla Rica. 
 
 Aus dem Jannerhefte des Jalirganges 1855 der Sitzungs berichte der 
 philof.-hiftor. Clafle der kais. Akademie der Wiflenfchaften (xv.Bd., S. 
 z8), b.efonders- abgedruckt. 
 
 SEEMAN, Dr. Berthold. 
 
 I. Brief Vocabularies of the Savaneric, Cholo, and Bayano lan- 
 guages of the IJlhmus of Darien ; Trans. Am. Ethnog. Soc.^ 
 vol. lii, pp. 1 79-1 8 1. 
 
 SOLANA, Fray Alonzo, Francifcan, native of 
 New Spain, Miffionary in Yucatan, where he acquired 
 the Maya language; .died in 1600, and was buried in 
 the Convent of S. Francifco de Merida ; wrote, ac- 
 cording to CogoUudo : 
 
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 1. Diccionario Maya y EJpanol. 
 
 2. Sermones en Lengua Maya. 
 
 3. Noticias Sagrados y Profanas de las Antiguedades y Conver- 
 
 Jion de los Indios:de Yucatan. 
 
 The latter was much ufed by Lizana in his Hiftory. 
 
 SOTOMAYOR, Fray Pedro, Francifcan ; a na^- 
 tive of Guatemala; eledted Provincial 161 2, died 
 1631. 
 
 1. Arte, Yocabulario, y Sermones en Lengua Guatemala. 
 
 2. Informacion de los varones illujlres del Orden de San Frandjco 
 
 del Reino de Guatemala. 
 
 SQUIER, E. G. 
 
 1. Vocabularies of the Nagrandan, Chorotegan or Dirian, Ni- 
 
 quiran or Nahuatl, and Woolwa or Ulua languages or dia- 
 leSs of Nicaragua, with Grammatical Notes of the Nagran- 
 dan, vol. ii, pp. 312-327 of Nicaragua: Its People, 
 Scenery, Monuments, etc. Reprinted with correfiions and 
 additions, in vol. iii, pp. 99-114, of Tranfa£fions of American 
 Ethnological Society. 
 
 2. Vocabularies of the Lenca language of Honduras, including 
 
 the dialefis of Guajiquero, Opatoro, Intibucat, and Similaton. 
 Aljb jpecimens of the Woolwa of Nicaragua, and the Carib 
 of the North Coajl of Honduras; States of Central America, 
 etc., pp. 152-156. Al/o a Vocabulary of the Nahuatl or 
 Pipil of San Salvador, as Jpoken on the Cojladel Baljimo, 
 and in the diJlriS of Izalco; lb., j p. 339-341. 
 
 3. Vocabulary of the Waikna or Mofquito language ; Appendix 
 
 to JVaiktia, or Adventuxes hn the Mofquito Shore. 
 
 4. Vocabulary of the Xicaque language of Honduras ; Nouvelle 
 • Annales des Voyages, "Ha^. 1858; p. 135. ' 
 
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 STEPHENS, John L. 
 
 Numerals and Lord's Prayer in the Quiche language : In- 
 cidents of Travel in Central America, vol. ii, pp. 190-191. 
 Aljb Vocabulary of the Chorte dialed, Jpoken near Zacapa : 
 Tranfaiiions of American Ethnological Society, vol. i, pp. 9-10. 
 
 A MS. written in the Maya Language, and now firjl pub- 
 lijhed ; Incidents of Travels in Yucatan, Appendix. 
 
 TAPIA ZENTINO, Don Carlos, native of 
 Mexico, graduate of the Tridentine Seminary, 
 Judge and Cura of Tattipamolon, and Catedratico of 
 the Mexican language in the Univerfity of Mexico. 
 
 1. Arte para Aprendcr la Lengua Megicana. 410. Printed by 
 
 Hogal, in Mexico, 1753. 
 
 2. Notida de la Lengua Huajleca, con Cathecijmo y Dodirina 
 
 Chrijliana, y un Copiojb Diccionario, etc. Small 4to, pp. 
 128. 
 Mexico, 1767. 
 
 TORRALVA, Fray Francisco, Francifcan, native 
 of Madrid, went to Yucatan 1 573 ; died in the Con- 
 vent of Merida, 1624; wrote according to Cogolludo, 
 Pinelo, and Nicolas Antonio, 
 
 I. Sermones Dofirinales en Lengua Maya 6 de Yucatan. 
 
 TORRE, Fray ToMas ; Dominican ; native of 
 Spain ; went to Santo Domingo, where he preached 
 the famous fermon which gave fo much offence to the 
 Spanifh fettlers. Went afterwards to Guatemala, where 
 he was Prior, and firft Provincial of San Vicetite de 
 Chiapa. Died in 1567. 
 
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 I. Hijloria de los principios de la Provincia de Chiapa y Guate- 
 mala, del Orden de Santo Domingo. 
 
 This MS. was ufed by Remefal, and is fuppofed to contain many 
 references to the native languages. 
 
 TORRESANO, Fray Estevan. 
 
 I. Arte de Lengua Cakchiquel, etc., incluiendo un Parallelo de 
 las Lenguas Kiche, Cakchiquel, y Zutuhil ; Guatemala, 
 aSo 1754. 
 
 This is an adaptation of the works of FJores, mentioned o"n p. 31, 
 made by a more ikillful and critical hand, omitting many of the cumber- 
 fome involutions and repetitions of the original. Copy in poffeffion of 
 the Author. Another in the Bib; Imp. of Paris. 
 
 UNZUETA, Diego de ; hecho por el, y remiti- 
 do a Juan 'Diaz de la Calle, una carta de 22 
 fojas, ano 1648, jntitulado, 
 
 I. Relacion de Guatemala. 
 
 VALENZUELA, Capt. Nicolas de, an officer 
 of Guatemala, who accompanied the Prefident 
 Barrios Leal in his Expedition againft the Lacandones, 
 and with the aid of official docuinents, wrote a detailed 
 account of it, in the year 1695, in xxvi chapters, com- 
 prifing a total of 402 pages. It is underftood to con- 
 tain many references to the Indian languages. 
 
 VARELA, Fray Francisco, Francifcan ; went to 
 Guatertiala in 1 596, became perfedt in the languages of 
 the country, and reduced a number of them into a 
 work, entitled, 
 
 I. Calepino de Varela. 
 
 In 400 pages folio, in the Convent of San Francifco de Guatemala. 
 
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 VASQUEZ, Fray Francisco, Francifcan ; wrote 
 the chronicles of his order, recounting alfo the circum- 
 ftances of the entry of the Spaniards in Guatemala, 
 the foundation of the cities of the country, etc., in 
 two volumes, printed in the printing eftablifhment, of 
 his Convent; vol. i, of 786 pages, vol. ii, of 904 pages, 
 and of the refpediye dates 1 7 14 and 1 7 1 6. This work 
 is entitled, 
 
 I. Cronica de la Provincia del Illmo. Nombre de J ejus, del Orden 
 de San Francifco de Guatemala. 
 
 Contains much information concerning the early Monks who wrote in 
 the Aboriginal languages of Guatemala and Chiapas. 
 
 VEGA, NufiEZ DE LA, BijQiop of Chiapas and 
 Soconufco, 1683. 
 
 I. Conjlitudones Diocejanas del Obijpado de Chiappas. Roma, 
 
 1702. 
 
 This work is divided into a Preamble and ten Parts, The Preamble 
 is mpft curious and valuable for archaeological purpofts, fince it contains^ ex- 
 trafts from 'the ancient books of the Tzendales, and other nations of the 
 vaft.dio.cefe of Chiapa. Thefe ancient books: appear to have been de- 
 pofited by the Bifliop in the Archives of -the Biftiopric at Ciudad Real, 
 for the ufe of the Curas of the diocefe. The fecond part has alfo feme 
 intereft, confifting of an exhortation direfted to the ancient idolaters 
 againft the fuperftition of Nagualifm, and contains a defcription of the 
 rites attending its praftice. La Vega had a complete acquaintance with 
 the Tzendal language, the probable root of the Maya, Quiche, and the 
 other affiliated dialefts of Guatemala and Yucatan. 
 
 VERDELETE, Fray Esteben, Francifcan of 
 Valencia; went to Guatemala in 1593 ; was Guardian 
 of various Convents; was killed by. the Indians in 
 1612. 
 
 I. Notldas de la Provincia de Tcguzigalpa, 6 Teguzgalpa. 
 
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 VI ANA, Fray Francisco, Dominican of Chiapas; 
 lived forty years in the Convent of Coban (Depart- 
 ment of Vera Paz), died in 1609. 
 
 1. Arte de la Lengua de Vera Paz (Remefal). 
 
 2. Vocabulario y Sermones ; Flos SanSorum ; Vida del Jejiis, 
 
 etc. He wrote many otheLdevotional tra£ls in the language 
 of Vera Paz, which were tranjlated into the Quiche by Fr. 
 Dionijio de Zufiiga, Dominican of San Vicente. {De Souza.) 
 
 VICO, Illmo D. Fray Domingo, native of Anda- ' 
 lucia, of the Order of Preachers ; went to America 
 with Las Cafas, and accompanied him in his miffions 
 into the Provinces of Chiapas and Vera Paz. Was 
 fucceffively Prior of the Convents of Guatemala, 
 Chiapas and Coban ; founded amongft others, the 
 town of San Andres ; was afterwards named Bifliop of 
 Vera Paz; was killed by- the Lacandones in 1555. 
 
 1. Teologia para los Indios, en Lengua de Vera Paz. 4 vols. 
 
 The Indian tide of this work is " Fae ru-cam ru Vuhil nimac biitz, 
 Tbeologia Indiorum Rubinaam" and it confifts of a courfe of Chriftian 
 inftruftion in the^Quiche language, for ufe of the Indians. It contains 
 alfo, a number of Sermons, and portions of" the Bible, the Epiftles and 
 EvaM;elifts, in the fame language, by various Dominican priefts. The 
 fame work was tranflated and is in exiftence, in the Kachiquel dialeft, in 
 the Bib. Imp. of Paris. 
 
 2. Libro de los Grandes Nombres ; 6 Hijloria de los P^riarcas, 
 
 Rey«, y Hombres grandes del Antiguo y Nuevo Tejla- 
 mento, en Lengua de Vera Paz. 
 
 3. Hijloria de los Indios, jiis Fibulas, Superjliciohes,. Cqflumbres, 
 
 etc, 
 
 4. Seis Artes y Vocabularies de diferentes Lenguas de los Indios. 
 
 5. Frafes e Idiomas de dichas Lenguas. 
 
 6. El Paraifo Eternal, en Lengua de Vera Paz. 
 
 7. Poejias Sagradas de la Pajion de Jejus Crijlo y de los hechos de 
 
 los Apojloles, en Lengua Kachiquel. 
 
 G 
 
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 VI DALES, Fray Luis, Francifcan of Yucatan. 
 Wrote, between 1644 and 1648, a large volume, con- 
 taining 
 
 I. Dos Vocabularies y Sintaxis del Idioma Yucateco 6 Maya. 
 
 VILLACANAS, Fray^enito de ; Dominican of 
 Mexico in 1573 ; was Miffionary among the Indians 
 of Zacapula, built a bridge over the river Lacandoft 
 at that point, and inftrudted the Indians in agriculture 
 and the arts, as well as in religion. Died in Guate- 
 mala in 1610. Remefal fays of him, " Supo perfedt- 
 " iffimamente la Lengua de los Indios." 
 
 I. Arte para Aprender la Lengua Kachiquel ; y Diccionario de 
 ella. 
 
 VILLACIS, Fray Simon, Francifcan of Yucatan, 
 wrote 
 
 I. Relacion del Viage de D,' Diego Vera Ordonez Villaquirin, 
 para la reduccion de los 'Indies del Reino del Projpero 
 en Neuva EJpana. 
 
 " This Kingdom comprifed the Locenes, Chinchiles, Mopanes, Lacan- 
 dones, Auzioes, Canules, TulunquieSj Cehaches, Chinamitas and iMaes." 
 
 VILLALPANDO, Fray Luis de ; accor4ing to 
 the Padre Beltran, he was the firft Pjieft who fet foot in 
 Campeachy, and was the firft to compofe a Grammar of 
 the Maya dialedl. This' was improved by the Padre 
 Landa, who, according to the fame authority, was the 
 firft Provincial of the Province of Yucatan, and its 
 fecond Bilhop. 
 
 I . Arte y Vocabulario de la Lengua de Yucatan. 
 Printed, according to Pinelo apd other authorities. 
 
w 
 
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 AFER, Lionel, Englifh Sailor and AdVen- 
 tiirer. 
 
 I. Dejcription of the IJlhmus of America, London, 1699 (Vo- 
 cabulary, etc, of Indians of Darien, pages i8x, 189). 
 
 WALDECK, Frederick de. 
 
 I, Vocabulaire Maya, avec les noms de Nombre et quelques 
 phrajes, a I'ufage des Voyageurs ; Voyage Pittorefque et 
 Archealpgique dans la Province d'Tucatan, pp. 79-90. 
 
 XAHILA, Don Francisco Ernandez Arana, 
 one of the Ahpotzotzil Princes of Guatemala, 
 grandfon of King Hunyg, wrote a Hiftory of Tecpan- 
 Atitlan and of the Kachiquel Kings, in the Quiche 
 language, which was afterwards tranflated into Kachi- 
 quel. {Abbe Brajfeur de Bourbourg.) 
 
 XIMENES, Fray Francisco, Doniiinican ; native 
 of Andalucia, and Provincial Genera] of the Province 
 of San Vicente de Chiapa. He wrote, according to 
 various authorities, as follows : 
 
 1. Hijloria de la Provincia de San Vicente de Chiapas, -yde 
 
 Goathemala, dejlgned to be in five volumes, three of which 
 were finijhed. 
 
 2. Catechijmo y ConfeJ(Jionario en lbs tres Lenguas Metropolitanas 
 
 de Giiatemala. ' 
 
 3. Arte Cbmparativa de los tres Lenguas Metropolitanas de 
 
 Guatemala, la Cakchiquel, Quiche, y Tzutuhil. 
 Now in the Univerfity of Guatemala. 
 
 4. De las Cojas Maravillojas de la America. {De Souza.) 
 
 5. Hijloria Natural de los tres Reynos, 1707; "loi fojas 
 
 utiles." 
 
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 6. Las Hijlorias del Origen de los Indies de ejla Provinda de 
 
 Guatemala, traducido de la Lengua Quiche en k CaJleUana, 
 para mas Comodidad de los Minijlros de el Santo Evangelic, 
 etc. 
 
 The MS. of this work exifts in the Library of the Univerfity of Gua- 
 temala. It was publiflied in Vienna in 1857, by the Imperial Academy ■ 
 of Sciences, from a copy taken by Dr. Carl Scherzer. The Efcolios of 
 Ximenez however, are not complete. 
 
 7, Mapa del dijlrito de Peten. (Pelaez.) 
 
 Y 
 
 OUNG, Thomas ; an Englifli Adventurer and 
 Trader on the north coaft of Honduras, 1839-40. 
 
 I. Narrative of a Rejidence on the Mojquito Shore, etc. (En- 
 glijh and Mojquito Vocabulary^ pp. 170-174,) London, 
 1842. 
 
 ZAPATA Y SANDOVAL, Illmo D. Fray 
 -Juan, a native of Mexito ; a Monk of San 
 Auguftin in 1563 ; in 1613 was appointed Bifhop of 
 Chiapas ; was tranfluted to the Bifhopric of Guatemala 
 in 1621 ; died 1630. 
 
 1, Cartas al Conde de Gomera, Prejidente de Guatemala, /bbre 
 
 los Indios de Chiapa. 
 
 2. Cartas al Rey Jbbre el Ejlado de la Diocejio de Chiapa. 
 
 ZEPEDA, Fray Francisco, native of La Mancha, 
 Dominican,- went to Chiapas, where he learned many of 
 the Indian Idioms; was Governor and Prior of various 
 Convents, and was eledled Provincial in 1593 ; died in 
 Guatemala, at the age of 70, in 1602. To make the 
 inftruftion of the Indians uniform, he examined the 
 various Grammars compofed by the Miffionaries, cor- 
 reded, enlarged and illuftrated them, and finally pub- 
 liflied: 
 
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 I. Artes de los Idiomas Chiapcnje, Zoquenfe, Celdal y Cina- 
 canteca. 
 
 Mexico, 1560, Pinelo fays, erroneoufly, 1530. 
 
 ZUNIGA, Fray Dionisio de, Dominican of San 
 Vicente de Chiapa, native of Guatemala. 
 
 1. Gramatica de la Lengua Kiche. 
 
 2. Sermonario en dicho Idiotna. 
 
 3. Las Obras del padre Viana, efcritas en Lengua de Vera Paz, 
 
 puejlas en Cajlellano 
 
 4.. Tratado de los deberes de la Jujlicia para gobierno de Alcal- 
 des Mayores, traduddo a la Lengua Kiche. 
 
 5. La Vida de la Virgin Maria, en Lengua Kiche. 
 
 6. Arte breve de la Lengua . Poconchi, de la Provincia de Vera 
 
 Paz, compucjlo y ordenado por el Venerable P. Fr. Dionyjio 
 de Zuniga, etc., y traduddo en la Lengua Pocomam de 
 Amititlan, por el P. F. Pedro de Moran. 
 
 7. Vocabulario de los Nombres de la Lengua Pocomam, 
 
 8. Vocabulario de los Nombres que comien9an en romance. 
 
 (Latin-Pocomam). 
 
APPENDIX, 
 
 CONTAINING A 
 
 LIST OF BOOKS AND MSS. 
 
 RELATING WHOLLY OR- IN PART TO THE HIS- 
 TORY, ABORIGINES AND ANTIgUITIES 
 OF CENTRAL AMERICA. 
 
 AGUIRRE, Don Xavier de. Alcalde Mayor of 
 Vera Paz. 
 
 I. Informe dirijida a los SeSores de {a Junta del Gobierno del 
 Real Conjulado de Guatemala, a 3 de Febrero, de iSo"?. 
 MS. 
 
 ALVARADO, Don Pedro de ; Lieutenant of 
 Cortez in his Conqueft of Mexico ; Conqueror and 
 Adelantado of Guatemala. 
 
 I. Relacion hccha a Hernando Cortez, en que je refieren las 
 guerras y batallas para paciflcar las Provincias de Chapo- 
 tulan, Checialtenangf}, 1 Utlatan, la quema de fu Cadque, 
 i nombramiento de jus hij'os para fucederle ; 1 de tres Jierras 
 de Acije, A9ufre, i Alumbre. 
 
 I. Relacion hecha a Hernando Cortez, en que /e refiere la Con- 
 quijla de muchas ciudades, las guerras, etc., que^ifucedieron, 
 i la poblacion que hi90 de una Ciudad. De dos Volcanos, 
 uno que exalba fuego, i otro humo, etcs 
 
 Thefe two Rekcions are publifhed in vol. i, of Barcia's Hiftoriadores 
 Primitwos de las India! Qccidentahu 
 
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 ANONYMOUS. 
 
 1. Hijloria y Cronica Francifcana de la Provincia del Santo 
 
 Nombre de Jcfus de Guatemala, que trata de la Converjion 
 
 ,de los Indios del Reyno de Utlatan y de Guatemala a la ley 
 
 de Dios, con noticias del ejlado que tenian en ju infldelidad 
 
 y gentilifmo, ritos y cojlumbres que obfervaban, govierno y 
 
 policia con que regian y leyes con que je governaban inde- 
 
 pendientes del Impero Mexicano, de la Venida de los Efpa- 
 
 fioles. MS. 
 
 This is mentioned by the Abbe Brafleur de Bourbourg, as having been 
 
 in the ancient Convent of San Francifco of Guatemala. It is perhaps 
 
 the original IVIS. of the Cronica de la Provincia del Illmo. Nombre de 
 
 Jejus, etc., of the Fray Francifco Vafquez. See p. 48. 
 
 2. Tratado de la fundacion del Convento de la Ciudad de San 
 
 Salvador, de la provincia de Guatemala, y de las cojas no- 
 tables que dejHa ella ban jiicedido en el'hajla ejlos tiempos. 
 MS. 
 
 3. Informe del Provincial de la Orden de Santo Domingo de 
 
 Guatemala, hecho en el aiio 1 724, tocante a los negocios de 
 la Vera Paz. MS. 
 
 4. Relacion de la Jublevacion de los Zendales, en el ano de 
 
 1712. MS. 
 
 The three laft named are defcribed by the Abbe Brafleur, as having 
 formed part of the archivesjjf the old Dominican Monaftery of Guatemala. 
 
 5. Informes diverjbs tocantes a la Vera Paz, dirijidos por los 
 
 padres Chica, Abella, Ejcoto, y Aguila^ al Illmo. SeSor 
 Arzobijpo de Guatemala, afios 1819-20. 
 
 6. Requete de plujleurs chefs Indiens d'Atitlan, a Philippe II., 
 
 'fait le ler. de fevrier de I'an 1571. Recueil de pieces 
 relatives a la Conquete du Mexique, par M. Ternaux-Com- 
 pans. Paris, 1838. 
 
 AVILA I LUGO, Don Francisco de. Governor 
 and Captain General of Honduras. 
 
 I. Dejcripcion dfe las Ijlas Guanajas; Informe hecha en 1639, 
 de Orden del Prejidente de Guatemala. MS. ^ 
 
 A portion of this Memorial is printed in Squier's States of Central 
 America, etc., pp. 608-615, 
 
B 
 
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 lENVENIDA, Fray Lorenzo de. 
 
 . Carta dirijida a Felipe II, Rey de EJpana, fobre la Con- 
 quijla y Pacificacion de la Provincia de Yucatan y Jus pode- 
 rpfos Reyes ; ano 1548. MS. 
 
 BRASSEUR DE BOURBOURG, Abbc. 
 
 , Hijtoire des Nations Civilijees du Mexique, et de r'Amerit[ue 
 Centrale, durant les Siecles anterieurs a Chrijtophe Colomb, 
 etc. • " 
 
 4 vols. Paris, 1857-59. 
 
 . Cartas para jervir de iiitroduccion a la Hijloria primitiva de las 
 Naciones civilizadas de la America Setentrional. 
 
 Mexico, 1 85 1. 
 
 CABILDO DE LA ClUDAD Y PrOVINCIA DE CoSTA 
 Rica. 
 
 I. Relacion muy circunjlandada, ejcrita al Rey, de los jiicefos 
 de } uan Vafquez de Coronado, en las Provincias de Nuevo 
 Cartago y Cojla Rica en la Paciflcadon y Dejcubrimiento 
 de ellas, en 12 de Dicien;bre, 1562. MS. 
 
 CABRERA, Dr. D. Paul Felix. 
 
 I. Teatro Critico Americano, -or, a critical Invejligation and Re- 
 Jearch into the Hijloryof the Americans, with the Report of 
 Antonio del Rio, on the Ruins of Palenque. 
 
 London, i8z2. 
 
 CAM PAS, Don Antonio Rodriguez, lived abotit 
 1750. 
 I. Diario Hijlorico de Guatemala, MS. 
 
 H 
 
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 CARRILLO ALTAMIRANO, Don Hernando; 
 a'ppointed by Don Pedro de Alvarado Alcalde Ordi- 
 nario of Guatemala in the year 1526. 
 
 I . Memorial al Rey jbbre la pobladon de la Nueva EJpaiia. MS. 
 
 CARTAJENA, P. Juan ; born in Mexico in the 
 
 year 1704; died in the fame city in the year 1758. 
 
 I. La Sta. Iglejia de Guatemala, madre fecundifima de hijos 
 ilujlrijimos. 
 Printed in Mexico by Ribera, 1 747. 
 
 CASTILLO, Bernal Diaz de, one of the com- 
 panions of Cortez in his Conqueft of Mexico, and 
 accompanied him in his famous march into Honduras. 
 Bernal Diaz went fubfequently to Guatemala, of which 
 city he became Regidor in 1568. It was here that he 
 wrote his famous Hiftory, the original MS. of which, 
 in his own handwriting f;ill exifts in the Archives of 
 the Municipality. The printed copy feems to have 
 fufFered from the excifions of the.cenfor. 
 
 I. Hijloria Verdadera de la Conquijla de Nueva Ejpafia. 
 Madrid, 1632. 
 
 CATHERWOOD, Frederick. 
 
 I. Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas, 
 and Yucatan, with explanatory text. 
 
 Folio, London, 1 844, 
 
 CERECEDA, Andres de, Contador of the Crown 
 in the Expedition of Gil Gonzalez de Avila into 
 Nicaragua, and afterwards Governor of the Province 
 of Honduras, 
 
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 1. Carta de fecha 20 de Enero, 1529, participando al Rey loque 
 
 ha ocufrido en la Mar del Sur entre el gobernador Diego 
 Lopez de Salcedo y Pedrarias de Avila. MS. 
 
 2. Carta muy larga y circunjlancial con fecha de 14 de Junio 
 
 ano 1533, participando al Rey lo que ha ocurrido en la 
 provincia de Honduras defde d afio 1530 hajla el ' ano 
 1533. MS. 
 
 Cereceda feems to have written out an account of the Expedition of 
 de Avila into Nicaragua, which he left in the hands of Peter Martyr de 
 Angleria, who ufed it extenfively in the iixth of his celebrated Decades. 
 
 CORTEZ, Fernando, Conqueror of Mexico. 
 
 I. Carta dirijida a la Sacra Catolica Cejarea Majejlad del invidli- 
 Jimo Emperador Don Carlos V.~, dej^e la Ciudad de Temex- 
 titan, a 3 de Setienlbre de 1526 anos. 
 
 This letter, generally known as "Carta Quinta," hut in faft the fixth 
 is devoted to the famous march of Cortez from IVIexico to Honduras, 
 through the preftnt provinces of Tabafco, Chiapas, Campeachy, Vera 
 Paz and Honduras. . It has numerous references to the aboriginal in- 
 habitants of thofe diftrifts. Printed in Vedia's Hijioriadores Primitivos 
 de Indias, vol.i. ; Madrid, 1852. Alfo in Coleccion de Documentos 
 Ineditos para la Hiftoria de Efpana, vol. i ; Madrid, 1 842. 
 
 D 
 
 AVILA, Pedrarias, firft Governor of the Pro- 
 vince of Panama. 
 
 1. Relacion dirigida al Rey de las Tierras, Cojlas y Puertos que 
 
 cjlaban defcubiertos en el Mar del Sur, defde la Villa de 
 Brujelas que ejlaba poblada en el Golfo de San Lucar, hajla 
 Neguepio que por otro nombre tambien fe llamaba Cuzcatan, 
 dijlancia de 200 leguas ; afio 1529. MS. 
 
 2. Carta a S. M. fobre los fucefos de fu teniente Francifco Fer- 
 
 nandez en el dejcubrimiento de la Provincia de Nicaragua y 
 del EJlrecho Dudojb; fecha en Panama, en Abril de 1525. 
 MS. 
 
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 D AVI LA, Capt. Gil Gonzalez, Difcoverer and 
 Conqueror of Nicaragua. 
 
 I. Relacion del Dejcubrimiento y Conquijia de las provincias de 
 Nicaragua, dirijida al Rey de Ejpafia, dejde la Ciudad de 
 Santo Domingo de laljla EfpaSola, a 6 dias del tnes deMarzo, 
 de 1524 afios. MS. 
 
 DAZA, Fray Pedro ; native of Puebla in Mexico, 
 Provincial of the Order of Redentores de La Merced 
 in Guatemala. 
 
 I. Memorias hijloricas de la fundacion y predicacion de los Re- 
 ligiofos de la Merced de la Redencion de cautivos en Guate- 
 mala. Ms. 
 
 DIAZ, Juan, Chaplain of the fleet under the com- 
 mand of the Captain General Juan de Grijalva, which 
 vifited the coafl; of Yucatan in the year 1518. 
 
 I. Itineraire du Voyage de la Flotte du Roi Catholique a Pile 
 de Yucatan, dans I'Inde ; fait en I'an 15 18, jbus.les ordres 
 du Capitaine Generalc Juan de Grijalva. 
 
 Receuil de Pieces relatives a la Conquete du Mexique, par H. Ternaux- 
 Compans. Paris, 1838. 
 
 DOMINGUEZ DE MAZARIEGOS, Don 
 
 Mariano Roblez. 
 
 I, Memoria Hijlorica de la Provincia de Chiapa, una de las de 
 Guatemala, prejentada al Augujlo Congrejb, por el Br. D. 
 Mariano Roblez Dominguez de Mazariegos, canonigo de la 
 Santa Iglejia Catedral de Ciudad-Real de Chiapa, Diputado 
 en Cortez por ju Provincia. 
 
 Cadiz, 1813. 
 
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 DUPAIX AND CASTENADA. 
 
 I. Report to Charles IV. of Spain on the Monuments of Palenque. 
 
 Publifhed in M. '&3.raA^vt's Receuil des Antiqtiites Mexicaines ; Paris, 
 1834; and alfo in the coUeftioh of Lord Kingfborough. 
 
 "jT^SCOBAR, Fray Alonzo de. 
 
 I. Account of the province of Vera Paz in Guatemala, and of 
 the Indian jettlements therein. Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. 
 of LSndon, vol. xi, p. 76-98. 
 
 FANCOURT, Charles St. John ; Governor of 
 the Britifli eftablifhment of Belize or Britifh 
 Honduras. 
 
 I. The Hijlory of Yucataii, from its Dijcovery to the clofe of the 
 jeventeenth century. 
 London, 1854. 
 
 FAJARDO, DdN Domingo. 
 
 I. Informe dirijida al Gobierno Supremo de Mexico, relativo a 
 ju MiJJion a Vera Paz y Peten. 
 Campeachy, 1828. ^ 
 
 GALDO, Illmo. Fray Alonzo; born 1569; 
 was Bifliop of Honduras. 
 I. Dejcripdon y ^oticias del Obijpado de Honduras. MS. 
 
 GODOY, Capt. Diego. 
 I. Relacion a Hernando Cortez, en que trata del Defcubrimiento 
 de diverfas Ciiidades, i Provincias, i Guerra quetuvo con lbs 
 . Indios, etc. ; de la Provincia de Chamula, etc., etc. 
 
 This account of tlie Expedition of Qodoy into the northern portion 
 of Central America is printed 'va'&axch.h Hiftoriad'ores Primitivos, etc. 
 
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 GRIJALVA, Capt. Hernando de. 
 I. Relacion de la Jornada que hizo a dejcubrir en la Mar del fur, 
 el Capitan Hernando de Grijalva, con dos navios del Mar- 
 ques del Valle, dc]"d? 30 de OSubre de 1533 que falio del 
 puerto de Yucatan, llamado la bahia de Santiago de Buena 
 EJperanza, hajla por el mes de Febrero.del afio Jiguiente. 
 Printed in Buckingham Smith's "Coleccion de , Documentos para la 
 Hiftoria de la Florida y tierras adyacentes." 
 
 H 
 
 ENDERSON, Capt: George. 
 
 I. An account of the Britifh Settlement of Honduras, with 
 Jketches of the manners and cujloms of the Mojquito 
 Indians, etc. 
 
 London, 1809. 
 
 This work contains a brief Englifh and Mofquito Vocabulary. 
 
 HERRERA, Don Antonio de, Hoyal Hiftorian 
 of the Indias, 
 
 ' ♦ 
 
 I. Hijloria General de los hechos de los Cajlellanos en las ijlas y 
 ' tierra firma del mar Oceano. 
 
 . Madrid, 1601-1615. 
 
 » 
 
 TOMARD, E. F. 
 
 I. Rapport fur la Geographic ct les Antiquites de I'Amerique 
 Centrale. 
 
 Paris, 1836. 
 
 LAS CASAS, Illmo. Fray Bartolomc; native 
 of Seville in Spain, of the Order of Santo Do- 
 mingo, Miffionary in many parts of America, and 
 finally Bifhop of Chiapas. 
 
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 1, Hijloria Apologetica de las Indias Occidcntales, etc. MS, 
 
 5 vols., folio, in Royal Library of Madrid. 
 
 2. BreviJJima Relacion de la Dejlruccion de las Indias. 
 
 Sevilla, 1552. 
 
 M 
 
 IRANDA, Francisco Montero de. 
 
 Relation dirijida al Sefior Licenciado Palacio del Confejo de 
 ju Magejlad 1 Jii Oydor dignijimo en la Real Audiencia de 
 Guatetnala, fobre la provincia de Vera Paz 6 Tierra de 
 Guerra, de Jiis ajiento, temple, produflos, aniniales, minerales, 
 y Jus naturales, ju policia, traSo, lenguajes, etc., afio 1575. 
 MS. 
 
 MOLINA, Felipe. 
 
 I. Bojqiiejo de la Republica de Cojla Rica, jeguido de Apunta- 
 mientos para ju Hijloria, etc. 
 
 New York, 185 1. 
 
 MONTEJO, D. Francisco. 
 
 I. Carta al Rey fobre la fundacion de la Villa de San Francijco 
 de Campeche, y de la Ciudad de Merida, 14 de Junio dc 
 
 1543- 
 Among the MSS.- at Seville, leg. 7 of Cartas de Indias. 
 
 MORELET, M. Arthur. 
 I. Voyage dans I'Amerique Centrale, I'ljle de Cuba, et I'Yucatan. 
 
 Paris, 1856. 
 
 A tranflation of the portion of this work relating to Central America, 
 including Yucatan, Campeachy, Tabafco, Chiapas, Vera Paz and Gua- 
 temala, by Mrs. E. G. Squier has been pubhflied in the United States 
 under the title of Itza, or the Unexplored Regions of Central America. 
 
[64]' 
 
 M O RE RA, Fray Jose; Francifcan of Guatemala, 
 of which Province he was Difinidor; died in the year 
 1666. ' . 
 
 I. Noticias de la Provincia de Guatemala, con un Tratado de la 
 Mijion y Martiio de los P. P. Mijioneros,* Verdelete y 
 Monteagudo. 
 MS. in the Francifcan Convent of Guatemala. 
 
 N 
 
 lEBLA, Don Francisco de. 
 
 I. Memorial de las advertendas y cojas que la Cca. Catha. Rl. 
 M. del Rey Don Felipe, nuejlro Senor i Ju Rl. Conjejo de 
 Indias manda hacer, i de las cojas i particularidades' dejlas 
 provindas, para ennoblecimiento dellas i las diligencias que 
 cerca dello Je ban podido hacer en ejla provincia y cojla de 
 Zapotitlan i Suchitepequez, ano 1579. MS. 
 
 NORMAN, B. M. 
 
 I. Rambles in Yucatan, or Notes of Travel through the Penin- 
 fula, etc. 
 New York, 1 844. ' ' 
 
 OVIEDO Y VALDEZ, Gonzalo Frrnandez ; 
 born in Madrid in 1478, died in Valladolid in 
 1557. He was for a large part of his life in public 
 employment in America, where he colle6led the mate- 
 rials for his famous work, publifhed for the firft time 
 complete, by the Royal Academy of Hiftory of Mad- 
 rid, in the year 1851. 
 
 I. Hijloria General y Natural delas Indias, IJlas, y Tierra-firme 
 del Mar Oceano. 4 vols., folio. 
 
 This work abounds in fafts concerning the aborigines of Central 
 America, but particularly of the ancient Province of Nicaragua.' 
 
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 ORDONEZ Y AGUIAR, Don Ramon' de, 
 Prefbyter of the Cathedral of Ciudad Real de Chiapas. 
 
 I, Hijloria de la Creadon del cielo y de la Tierra, conforme al 
 Sijlema de la gentilidad Americana. Teologia de las 
 Culebtas, figurada en ingeniojos gerogliflcos, Jimbolos, em- 
 blemas, y metaphoras ; Diluvio ' Univerfal ; Dijperjion de 
 las gentes ; Verdadero origen de los Indios, ete. ; Principio 
 de Jii imperio ; Fundadon y dejlrucdon de Ju antigua y pri- 
 mera corte, poco ha defcubierta y conodda con el nombre del 
 Palenque, etc., etc. 
 
 This remarkable work.exifts in the National Mufeum of .Mexico, in MS. 
 
 JEDRAZA, Illmo. Cristoval DEy one of the 
 earlieft Biihops of Honduras. 
 
 I. Rclacion de la Provinda de Honduras e Hlgueras, dirijida al 
 Emperador, dejde el puerto de Truxillo; ano 1547. MS. 
 
 PELAEZ, Illmo. Senor Dr. D. Francisco de 
 Paula Garcia, Archbifhop of Guatemala. 
 
 I. Memorias para la Hijloria del Antiguo Reyno de Guatemala. 
 In 3 vols. Guatemala, 1852. 
 
 R 
 
 OBERTS, Orlando W., an Englifh Trader 
 on the Mofquito Shore. 
 
 I. Narrative of Voyages and Excurjions on the Eajl Coajl and 
 in the Interior of Central America. 
 
 Edinburgh, 1827. 
 
 REBULLIDA, Fray Pablo; Francifcan; went 
 to Guatemala in the year 1694; was flain by the In- 
 dians of Talamanca in Cofta Rica, in the year 1709. 
 
 I 
 
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 1. Informe a la Audiencia de Guatemala jbbre el ejlado a3ual de 
 
 la Crijtianidad de la Provincia de Talamanca, 1697. MS. 
 
 2. Cartas al Ven. P. Margil, jbbre el carafler de los Indios 
 
 Terrabas, Talamanca^, y Changenes. MS. 
 
 OALVAGO, LicENCiADO Juan Strada. 
 
 I. Defcripcion de las Provincias de Cojla Rica, Guatemala, 
 Honduras, Nicaragua, y Tierra-firme y Cartagena, y de 
 toda Ja Cojta del Norte ; de Jus naturales, pobladones, con- 
 Jlelacion de la tierra ^ Ju cielo, etc., etc.,-dirijida al mui 
 magniflco y M. R. Sr. el P. Fr. Diego Guillen, Comijarib 
 de la Provincia de Cartago y CoJla Rica, con fecha de 6 de 
 Mayo, de 1572. MS. 
 
 SANCHEZ, Don Jose; native of Guatemala, 
 died 1783. 
 
 I. Apuntamientos para la Hijloria de Guatemala. 
 
 Mentioned by Bilhop Pelaez as exifting in Manufcript in Guatemala. 
 
 SQUIER, E. G. 
 
 1. Nicaragua, its Scenery, Monuments, etc. 
 2 vols. New York, 185Z. 
 
 2. The States of Central America, etc. 
 
 New York, I'ss'S. 
 
 3. The Archaeology and Ethnology of Nicaragua. 
 
 Trans. Am. Ethng. Soc, vol. iii, 1852. 
 
 STEPHENS, John L. 
 
 Incidents of Travel ii 
 -Yucatan, 
 
 2 vols. New York, 184.2. 
 
 I. Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and 
 -Yucatan, 
 
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 2. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan. 
 
 2 vols. New York, 1843. 
 
 STRANGEWAYS, Thomas. 
 
 sketch of the 
 Poyas. 
 
 Edinburg, 1822. 
 
 I. Sketch of the Mojquito Shore, including the Territory of 
 Poyas. 
 
 URTIAGA, Illmo. Fray Pedro ; native of 
 Mexico ; Francifcan ; accompanied the Fray 
 Antonio Margil in his miffion to the Choles of Vera 
 Paz ; affifted in the foundation of the Propaganda 
 College of Guatemala, and in various miffionary en- 
 terprizes ; was afterwards appointed Bifhop of Puerto 
 Rico, where he died. / 
 
 I. Diario del Viaje de los cinco Mijioneros dejde Queretaro 
 hajla Guatemala. 
 
 Printed in Guatemala, 1694. 
 
 T TERA PAZ. 
 
 I. Reladon de la provinda y tierra de la Vera Paz, y de las cojas 
 contenidas en ella, como jbn montes, fuentes, animales, aves, 
 y plantas y arboledas, del numero de los pueblos y dijlancia 
 de la Iglejias y fundacion de ellas, y de Ip que cada uno 
 tiene ; y finalmente del numero de gente, Jus lenguas, fa 
 policia y Xtiandad, deJde el ano de 1544, hajla ejle de 
 1575. MS. 
 
 This is dated in the Conyent of Santo Domingo de Coban, December 
 7, 1574, and fubfcribed by the Friars Francifco de Viana (fee ante, p. 
 49), Lucas Gallego, and Guillem Cadena. 
 
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 VILLAGUTIERRE SOTO-MAYOR, Don 
 Juan oe. Reporter to the Royal and Supreme Coun- 
 cil of the Indias. 
 
 I. Hijloria de la Conquijla de la Provincia de el Itza, rcduccion 
 y progrejjos de la de Lacandpn y otras naciones de Indios 
 Barbaros de la Mediacion de el .Reyno de Guatemala a las 
 Proyincias de Yucatan, en la America Septentrional. 
 Madrid, 1701. 
 
 w 
 
 ALDECK, Frederick de. 
 
 I. Voyage Pittorefque et Archeologique dans la Province d' 
 Yucatan. 
 
 Folio, Paris, 1838. 
 
INDEX 
 
 OF INDIAN TRIBES AND LANGUAGE! 
 
 A CHI, ix, 30, 33. 
 
 Atiteca, fee Zutugil. 
 Aztec, fee NahuatL 
 
 T> AYANO, 44; 
 Blancos, 4-4. 
 Suricas, x. 
 
 r^AKCHIQUEL, or Cakchiquel- 
 
 che, fee Kachiquel. 
 Carib, 32. 
 Cinacanteca, 53. 
 Changenes, 65. 
 Chiapenfe, 53. 
 Chole, vii, ix. 
 Cholo, 29, 44. 
 ,Chontal, x, 25, 33. 
 Chorotegan, x, 45. 
 Chorti, vi, ix, 38, 46. 
 
 J)IRIAN, 45. 
 
 Q.UATEMALTECA, fee Kach- 
 iquel. 
 
 tJUASTECA, v,vi,29,33,3g, 
 ■^ 39.46. 
 
 TTZAES, ix, 35, 68, 
 
 "^ACHIQUEL, V, vi, ix, xiii, 
 -*-^ 1.8, 19, 24, 28, 29, 31, 32, 
 
 33. 34> 36, 38, 4'. 42. 43. 44. 
 47.49. 50. 51- 
 Kiche, fee Quiche. 
 
 T ACANDON, vii, ix, 42, 68. 
 ■^ Lenca, x, 45. 
 
 V/TAM, vi, ix, 34, 42. 
 ■*' Manches, vii, ix, 42. 
 Marabios, x. 
 
 • Maya, v, vi, ix, 17, 18, 20, 22, 
 27, 28, 30, 38, 43, 45, 46, 50, 
 
 5"- 
 Mofquitos, fee Waikna. 
 
 "N^AGRANDAN, x, 45, 
 ■*-^ Nahuatl, iv, viii, ix, 30, 31, 
 38. 39. 43. 45. 46. 
 
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 PAYA X. Y^LIENTES, x, 44. 
 
 ^ Pipil, ix, 45. Vera Paz, 49, 53, 61. 
 
 Pocoman, ix, 32, 44, 53. 
 
 Poconchi, fee Pocoman. TX^AIKNA, x, 29, 31, 34, 45, 
 
 Punftunc; 32. ' '^ 52, 62. 
 
 Q^,.^,__ . . 'Woolwa,,x, 45. 
 UICHE, V, VI, IX, 19, 20, 21, '-> f? 
 
 24, 29. 37. 41. 43, 44. 46> x^icaqUE, 45. 
 
 47. 49. 51. S3- j^iv^Aj^uii, 4i 
 
 CAVANERIC, 44. 
 
 yTJCATECA, fee Maya. 
 
 npALAMANCAS, x, 36,44, 65. 
 
 A Taulepas, X. ^ACAPULA, fee Zutugil. 
 
 Terrabas, 65. Z^ Zapoteca, 33. 
 
 Toj^res, x. ^otzil, 43. 
 
 Toltecs iv,v. [56. Zotdem:43. 
 
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