[Footnote 85: In the ancient Qquichua literature the tragic dramas were called huancay; those of a comic nature, aranhuay. Both were composed in assonant verses of six and eight syllables, which were not sung or chanted, but repeated with dramatic intonation.]
[Footnote 86: On the bibliography of the drama see Zegarra, Ollantai,
Drame en Vers Quechuas du temps des Incas, Introd. p. CLXXIII.
(Paris, 1878.) The English translation is by Clements R. Markham,
Ollanta, an Ancient Ynca Drama (London, 1871).]
[Footnote 87: The recent attempt of General Don Bartolome Mitre, of Buenos Ayres, to discredit the antiquity of the Ollanta drama (in the Nueva Revista de Buenos Ayres, 1881), has been most thoroughly and conclusively refuted by Mr. Clements R. Markham, in the volume of the Hackluyt Society's Publications for 1883.]
[Footnote 88: Rabinal-Achi, ou le Drame Ballet du Tun, published as an appendix to the Grammaire de la Langue Quiche (Paris, 1862). The Abbe Brasseur asserts that he wrote down this drama from verbal information, at the village of Rabinal in Guatemala; but a note by Dr. Berendt in my possession characterizes this statement as incorrect, and adds: "Brasseur found the MS. all written, in the hands of an hacendado, on the road from Guatemala to Chiapas. The original exists still in the same place." It was a weakness with the Abbe to throw, designedly, considerable obscurity about his authorities and the sources of his knowledge.]
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INDEX.
Names of native authors and productions are in italics.
Abolachi
Adair, James
Adam, L.
Algonkins
Alva, B. de
Anales de Cuauhtitlan
Anales del Museo Nacional
Apes, Rev. Wm.
Araucanians
Arawacks
Atitlan, Lake
Aubin, M.
Avila, F. de
Ayala, G, de
Aymaras
Aztecs
Baker, T. Barbara, Fed. Bautista, J. de Beach, W.W. Beaver Indians Berendt, C.H. Beristain y Souza Book of the Jew Book of Rites Books of Chilan Balam Boturini, L. Boudinot, Elias Brasseur de Bourbourg, Abbe Brinton, D.G. Byington, Rev. C.
Cabrera, P.F. Cakchiquels Californian Indians Camargo, D.M. Carochi, H. Carreri, G. Carrillo, Rev. C. Cartas de Indias Castaneda, G. Chac Xulub Chen, Chronicle of Chahta-Muskokees Chapanec language Chekilli Cherokee Phoenix Cherokees Chiapas Chichimecs Chignavincelut Chilan Balam, Books of Chili, Tribes of Chimalpain, D. Munon Chimalpopoca, F, Lic. Chippeways Choctaws Chorotegan language Clark, P. Dooyentate Clavigero, F.S. Codex, Aztec Codex, Chimalpopoca Cogolludo, D. Copway, George Couto de Magalhaes, Dr. Coy, Domingo Creeks Crees Cuoq, M. Cushing, F.H. Cusick, David