[Footnote 74: "Negli avanci, che si restano della lor Poesia, vi sono alcuni versi, ne'quali tra le parole significative si vedono frapposte certe interjezioni, o sillabe prive d'ogni significazione, e soltanto adoperate, per quel ch'appare, per aggiustarsi al metro. Il linguaggio della lor Poesia era puro, ameno, brilliante, figurato, e fregiato di frequenti comparazioni fatte colle cose piu piacevoli della natura, siccome fiori, alberi, ruscelli, &c."--_Clavigero, Storia di Messico_. Tom. II, p. 175.] [Footnote 75: The originals of some of these poems were in the hands of Ixtlilxochitl, as is evident from his _Historia Chichimeca_, cap. XLVII.] [Footnote 76: Sahagun, _Psalmodia Xpiana_. (Mexico, 1583?) An extremely rare book, which I have never seen. Clavigero saw a copy, and thinks it was printed about 1540. _Storia di Messico_, Tom. II, p, 178, Note.] [Footnote 77: It is mentioned by Icazbalceta, _Apuntes para un Catalogo de Escritores en Lenguas Indigenas de America_, p. 146. (Mexico, 1866.) There are, however, two copies of it extant, somewhere.] [Footnote 78: See Mr. Clements R. Markham's Introductions to his edition of the _Ollanta_ drama (London, 1871); and to his _Qquichua Grammar and Dictionary_ (London, 1864).] [Footnote 79: "I'en demeurai tout rauy; mais aussi toutes les fois qu'il m'en ressouuient, le coeur m'en tressaillant, il me semble que ie les aye encor aux oreilles."--Jean de Lery, _Histoire d'un voyage faict en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique_, pp. 258, 286. (Geneve, 1585.)] [Footnote 80: See his _Origens, Costumes e Regiaeo Selvagem_, pp. 78-82, 140-147. (Rio de Janeiro, 1876.)] [Footnote 81: Spix and Martius, _Reise in Brasilien, Brasilianische Volkslieder und Indianische Melodien, Musikbeilage_.] [Footnote 82: _Une Fete Bresilienne celebree a Rouen en 1550 suivie d'un Fragment du XVI'e Siecle roulant sur la Theogonie des anciens Peuples du Bresil et des Poesies en Langue Tupique, de Christovam Valente_. Par Ferdinand Denis, pp. 36-51, 98, sqq. (Paris, 1850.)] [Footnote 83: The Arawack language, which is now spoken in Guiana only, at the time of the discovery extended over the Greater and Lesser Antilles and the Bahama Islands, as I have shown in an essay on _The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations_, in the _Transactions_ of the American Philosophical Society, 1870.] [Footnote 84: _The Memoirs of Lieutenant Henry Timberlake_, p. 80 (London 1765).] [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).]