FRANCISCO HERNANDEZ, CACIQUE OF SOLOLA. (FRANCISCO ERNANDEZ ARANA XAHILA.) "Memorial," written about 1582.--Original owned by Brasseur de Bourbourg, who quotes it under the heading of "Memorial de Tèc-Pan-Atitlan."--It is one of the most important and valuable documents existing on aboriginal topics,--embodying, as it does, a statement of the conquest of Guatemala, written by a native in his own language. "Documentos antiguos de la casa de Ixcuinte-Nèhàib." In addition to these, I must lay particular stress on the "territorial titles" land grants, cessions, leases, or deeds to lands, still held in Guatemala,--or to whatever (if anything) may be left of their records.--Such papers contain frequently interesting, if not important references to antiquities, traditions and historical facts, also to the customs and manners of the Indians. Among the other authorities still perhaps existing, or known to have existed, though of difficult access, I refer to those below, avoiding, of course, Linguistical works, unless they are of direct bearing on other subjects also. JUAN ESTRADA DE RAVAGO (or Juan Strada Salvago.) "Descripcion de las Provincias de Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua y Tierra-firme y Cartagena, &c., &c." 6 May, 1572. (MS. copy of it belonging to E. G. Squier.) "Memorial de las advertencias i cosas que la C. Cath, R'l M. del Rey i su Re. Consejo de Indias manda hacer, &c., &c." (MS. of E. G. Squier.) 1579. FRANCISCO MONTERO DE MIRANDA. "Relacion dírigida al Ill'mo Señor Palacio, &c., &c., sobre la provincia de la Verapaz ó Tierra de Guerra." 1575. (MS. of E. G. Squier.) FRAYLES: FRANCISCO VIANA, LUCAS GALLEGO, and GUILLERMO CADENA. "Relacion de la provincia y tierra de la Vera Paz," 1574. (MS. of Squier.) FRAY TOMÁS CÁRDENAS. "Representaciones al Rey sobre el Estado de los Pueblos de la Vera-Paz." FRAY TOMÁS CASTELAR. "Tratado de los Idolos de Guatemala." "Triunfos de los Mártires del Orden de Predicadores en las Indias." Printed 1580. FRAY TOMÁS TORRE. "Historia de los principios de la Provincia de Chiapas y Guatemala, del Orden de Santo Domingo."--Written prior to 1567. FRAY DOMINGO VICO. "Historia de los Indios, sus Fábulas, Supersticiones, Costumbres, &c." "Teologia para los Indios, en Lengua de Vera Paz." 4 vols. (Still existing.) GERÓNIMO ROMAN. "República Indiana." (See Yucatan.) This list is certainly far from complete, and it may be that among the vocabularies, grammars, and such works now lost, although we know of their former existence, there were some,--perhaps even many,--which contained historical and ethnological matter of great value.--It is hardly possible to avoid all allusions to such subjects in any work on linguistics. But the number of books of that class is too great for the purpose of the present list. _Writers of the Seventeenth Century._ AUGUSTIN DAVILA-PADILLA. (See Yucatan. First edition appeared in 1595.) GREGORIO GARCIA. (Plain and well informed, though brief.)