[8-*] Conquest of Mexico, New York, 1843, vol. III., page 404.
[8-†] Description of an ancient city near Palenque, page 6.
[9-*] Quadro descriptivo y comparativo de las lenguas indígenas de México, by Francisco Pimentel, Mexico, 1865, p. 3. “The Maya is also still the spoken language of the Island of Carmen, the town of Monte Christo in Tobasco, and Palenque in Chiapas. With so much tenacity have the Indians preserved this language that to-day they speak no other, so that the whites find themselves obliged to learn it in order to make themselves understood.”
[9-†] Geographia de las Lenguas, y Carta ethnographica de México, by Manuel Orosco y Berra, México, 1864, p. 156.
[10-*] Los trés siglos de la dominacion Espanola en Yucatan. By Fr. Diego Lopez de Cogolludo,—Madrid, 1688.—Mérida, 1845, Lib. IV., Appendix A.
[11-*] The family of Don Manuel Casares consisted of his wife—a very active and estimable lady,—three sons and six daughters. Of the sons, the two eldest, David and Primitivo, were educated in the United States. David Casares graduated with honor at Harvard College, and after a three years course at the Ecole centrale des Arts et Manufactures, in Paris, he passed a creditable examination for his degree. He was first employed, on his return to his own country, as Professor of Mathematics in the College of Minerva, a Jesuit College of Mérida, but is now occupied in managing the plantation of his father, who died in 1864. Primitivo, the second son, studied mechanics and engineering at the scientific school in Cambridge, and employed himself in several machine shops and foundries in Worcester and Lowell, to prepare himself to introduce the use of machinery in his native country. He returned to his home in company with the writer, but died a year after, stricken down by fever, brought on by over-work while superintending the erection of machinery, upon one of the estates in the neighborhood of Mérida. Both these men were great favorites in Cambridge and Jamaica Plain, where they resided, and are well remembered for their attractive and interesting qualities. The writer became acquainted with many of the prominent families of Mérida and Campeachy, from whom he received hospitable courtesies and attentions; but it would here be out of place to acknowledge personal obligations.
[12-*] Histoire des nations civilizées du Mexique, by M. L’Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg, vol. II., page 578.
[18-*] Historia de Yucatan. By Cogolludo. Mérida, 1845. Lib. III., cap. VII.
[18-†] Ibid. Lib. IV., cap. XII.
[19-*] Travels in Cent. Am., Chiapas and Yucatan. By J. L. Stephens. New York, 1858. vol. II., page 403.