[Footnote 27: For testimony to this interesting fact see The Maya
Chronicles, Introduction, p. 28, note.]
[Footnote 28: The Books of Chilan Balam, The Prophetic and Historic
Records of the Mayas of Yucatan. By Daniel G. Brinton, M.D.,
Philadelphia, 1882. Reprint from the Penn Monthly, March, 1882.]
[Footnote 29: Library of Aboriginal American Literature, Vol. I, p. 189. (Philadelphia, 1882.)]
[Footnote 30: An intelligent appreciation of the linguistic labors of Pio
Perez was written by Dr. Berendt, in 1871, and printed in
Mexico.—Los Trabajos Linguisticos de Don Juan Pio Perez. 8vo.
pp. 6.]
[Footnote 31: Disertacion sobre la Historia de la Lengua Maya o
Yucateca. Por Crescencio Carrillo. Published in the Revista de
Merida, 1870.]
[Footnote 32: A fine manuscript of Vico's work, as well as a number of other productions in Cakchiquel, by the missionaries, are in the library of the American Philosophical Society, at Philadelphia.]
[Footnote 33: Tecpan Atitlan is a village on the shore of Lake Atitlan, in the province of Solola, Guatemala.]
[Footnote 34: Don Domingo Juarros, Compendio de la Historia de la
Ciudad de Guatemala, Tomo, II pp. 6, 7, 12, 16, et al. (Ed.
Guatemala, 1857). A copy of Tzumpan's writings is said to be in a
private library in the United States.
The native Cakchiquel writers were also the authorities on which Father Vazquez depended, in part, in composing his history of Guatemala. He gives a partial translation of one, beginning the passage: "Los Indios de Zolola dizen en sus escritos," etc.—Fray Francisco Vazquez, Cronica de la Provincia de Guatemala, Lib. III, Cap. XXXVI. (Guatemala, 1714, 1716.)]
[Footnote 35: Brasseur de Bourbourg, Bibliotheque
Mexico-Guatemalienne, p. 142. (Paris, 1871.)]