FOOTNOTES.

[1]. For the use of a French copy of “Waldeck’s Yucatan,” I am indebted to my distinguished countryman, Mr. Stephens, for which, and for many other civilities, I embrace this opportunity to make my sincere acknowledgments.

[2]. A specimen of the Lord’s Prayer in the Maya language is here transcribed:—

Cayum yannech ti canoob, cilich cunabac a kaba, tac cokol a kahaulil utzcinabac, a nolah ti luum baix, te ti caane sa ca zamalkin, uah toon helelach, zatex ix czipil bay czazic, u zipil uh ziplob toone maix, a uilic e lubul, ti tuntabale, hanuca lukezon, ichil lobil. Amen.

[3]. It is my purpose to give a more extended discussion of the Maya language in a subsequent chapter. I was so fortunate as to procure from an Indian in the interior of Yucatan the only copy I have ever seen of R. P. L. Beltran’s Grammar of this language, which is mentioned in the text. It is entitled, “Arte de el Idioma Maya, Reducido á Succinctas Reglas y Semi Lexicon Yucateco, por el R. P. F. Pedro Beltran, de Santa Rosa Maria, ex-Custodio, Lector que sue de Philosophia y Theologia, Revisor del Sto. Oficio, é hijo de esta Sta. Recoleccion Franciscana de Merida. Formólo y Dictólo sienda Maestro de Lengua Maya en el Convento Capitular de N. S. P. S. Francisco, de dicha Ciudad. Año de 1742, Yolo Dedica á la Gloriosa Indiana Santa Rosa Maria de Lima, con licencia: en Mexico, por la Venda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal. Año de 1746.”

[4]. Chi-Chen signifies, Mouth of a Well. “Itza,” said to be the Maya name for one of the old possessors of these ruins, is sometimes added by the natives.

[5]. The names by which I have designated these ruins, are such as were suggested to me by their peculiar construction, and the purposes for which I supposed them to have been designed.

[6]. I found the wood of the zuporte-tree had been used exclusively in these buildings for lintels and thwart-beams, but for no other purpose. Upon several of the beams yet remaining, there were elaborate carvings. This wood is well known in this country for its remarkable durability and solidity.

[7]. Dublin Penny Journal for 1834 and 1835, pages 349, 350.

[8]. Uxmal signifies “Times past.”

[9]. The names (though misnomers) of these structures originated with the people of the country.

[10]. Breckenridge.

[11]. Sparks’ Life of Ledyard.

[12]. Priest.

[13]. Bradford’s Am. Ant.

[14]. Prof. Rafinesque.

[15]. De Solis.

[16]. Crawford’s Siam.

[17]. Montezuma, in reply to Cortez, says, “In regard to the creation of the world, our beliefs are the same.”—Bernal Diez.

[18]. An evil genius of hideous appearance, that, it was believed, would devour the world.

[19]. “They had books made of the bark of trees, in which were noted down the records of past times.”—Bernal Diez.

[20]. “The natives of these countries have learned trades, and have their shops, manufactories, and journeymen, and gain their livelihood thereby. The gold and silver smiths work both in cast metal and by the hammer; and excel, as do the lapidaries and painters. The engravers execute first-rate work with their fine instruments of iron, especially upon emeralds; wherein they represent all the acts of the holy passions in such a manner, that those who had not seen them execute it, would not have believed such to have been done by the hand of an Indian. The sons of the chiefs used to be grammarians; and were learning very well until they were forbidden by the holy synod, under an order from the Archbishop of Mexico. They excel in all manufactures, not excepting that of tapestry.”—Bernal Diez.

[21]. Bernal Diez.

[22]. De Solis.

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