[Footnote 63: _Huehue_, ancient; _tlatolli_, words, speeches. A special variety were the _calmecatlatolli_, the declamations which the youths of noble families were taught to deliver in the spacious halls of the _calmecac_, or public schools. "Calmeca tlatolli, palabras dichas en corredores largos. E tomase por los dichos y fictiones de los viejos antiguos." Molina, _Vocabulario de la Lengua Mexicana, sub voce_. The word _calmecac_ is a compound of _calli_, house, and _mecana_, to give, it being the building furnished by the State for purposes of public instruction.] [Footnote 64: Fr. Juan Baptista (or Bautista), _Platicas Morales en Lengua Mexicana, intitulados Huehuetlatolli_, 8vo. Mexico (1599? or 1601?). This work is not mentioned by Icazbalceta, but is described in Berendt's notes, and a copy was sold in Paris in 1869. It is enumerated by Vetancurt, _Menologio Franciscano_, p. 446 (2d ed.).] [Footnote 65: Olmos, _Grammaire de la Langue Nahuatl_, pp. 231 sqq. (Paris 1875.)] [Footnote 66: _Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Incas._ Translated by C. R. Markham. Printed for the Hackluyt Society (London, 1873).] [Footnote 67: _Chrestomathie de la Langue Maya_, in _Etude sur le Systeme Graphique et la Langue des Mayas._ (Paris, 1870.)] [Footnote 68: Bernal Diaz gives an interesting account of this "black sermon," as he calls it. The incident is significant, as it shows that the natives were accustomed to gather around their places of worship, to listen to addresses by the priests. See the _Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva Espana_, Cap. XXVII. (Madrid, 1632.)] [Footnote 69: Some judicious remarks on the origin and development of aboriginal poetry are offered by Theodore Baker, in his excellent monograph on the music of the North American Indians, but his field of view was somewhat too restricted to do the subject full justice, as, indeed, he acknowledges. _Über die Musik der Nord-Americanischen Wilden_, von Theodor Baker, pp. 6-14. (Leipzig, 1882.)] [Footnote 70: Schoolcraft, _History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States_, vol. V, p. 559.] [Footnote 71: _Grammaire et Vocabulaire de la Langue Taensa, avec Textes traduits et commentes_. Par J.D. Haumonte, Parisot, et L. Adam. Paris, 1882.] [Footnote 72: "Or, i'ay assez de commerce avec la poesie pour juger cecy, que non seulement il n'y a rien de barbaric en cette imagination, mais qu'elle est tout a faict anacreontique."--_Essais de Michel de Montaigne_, Liv. I, cap. XXX, and comp. cap. XXXVI.] [Footnote 73: "Chez les Guarayos, ces hymnes religieux et allegoriques, si riches en figures.--Il est impossible de trouver rien de plus gracieux." "Quant a leurs poetes, le charme avec lequel ils peignent l'amour, annonce, certainement en eux, une intelligence developpee et autant d'esprit que de sensibilite."--Alcide D'Orbigny, _L'Homme Americain_, Tome I, pp. 155, 170.]