The American Race / A Linguistic Classification and Ethnographic Description of the Native Tribes of North and South America

by Daniel G. Brinton

[166] For numerous authorities, see Bancroft, Native Races of the Pacific Coast, vol. II., pp. 407-8; and on the antiquities of the country, Dr. Leon, in the Anales del Museo Michoacano, passim, and Beaumont, Cronica de la Provincia de Mechoacan, Tom. III., p. 87, sq. (Mexico, 1874).

[167] Sahagun, Historia de la Nueva España, Lib. X., cap. 6.

[168] Herrera, Historia de las Indias Occidentales, Dec. II., Lib. V., cap. 8.

[169] Strebel, Alt-Mexiko.

[170] Pimentel, Lenguas Indigenas de Mexico, Tom. III., p. 345, sq.

[171] From didja, language, za, the national name.

[172] Mr. A. Bandelier, in his careful description of these ruins (Report of an Archæological Tour in Mexico, Boston, 1884) spells this Lyo-ba. But an extensive MS. Vocabulario Zapoteco in my possession gives the orthography riyoo baa.

[173] Garcia, Origen de los Indios, Lib. V., cap. IV., gives a lengthy extract from one of their hieroglyphic mythological books.

[174] Sahagun, Historia de la Nueva España, Lib. X., cap. VI.

[175] Herrera, Historia de las Indias Occidentales. Dec. IV., Lib. X., cap. 7.