This report is dated Mérida, April 24, 1846. 1865 CARRILLO, CRESCENCIO. Estudio historico sobre la raza indigena de Yucatan. Vera Cruz, 1865, 26 pp. 1882 BANCROFT, HUBERT HOWE. The native races of the Pacific states. 5 volumes, San Francisco. In the several volumes of this work Bancroft has assembled most of the early accounts of the manners and customs of the Maya of Yucatan. He was unaware of the existence of the report by Mendez which forms the basis of our publication. 1883 BRINTON, DANIEL G. The Folk-lore of Yucatan. _Folk-Lore Journal_, London, vol. 1, part viii, pp. 1-13. This study is based largely on the report of Baeza, with additions from the article of Estanislao Carrillo, and manuscript notes of several other persons, notably those of Carl Hermann Berendt. CARRILLO Y ANCONA, CRESCENCIO. Historia de Welinna. Leyenda Yucateca. Segunda edición, Mérida, 52 pp. The first edition was printed in 1862. 1895 BRINTON, DANIEL G. A Primer of Mayan hieroglyphs. _Publications of the University of Pennsylvania, Series in Philology, Literature, and Archæology_, vol. III, no. 2. 1905 REJÓN GARCÍA, MANUEL. Supersticiones y leyendas Mayas. Mérida, 1905. NOTES [1] For the meaning of this and of other Indian words, consult the glossary. [2] _Fotuto_ is a musical instrument used by the Carib Indians and also by the negroes of the Antilles. [3] _Luneros_ are Monday-workers. [4] _Fagina_--_faena_, manual labor. [5] _Milpa roza_ is, literally, field cleared of underbrush and ready for planting. [6] _Milpa caña_, literally cane field. [7] An _almud_ is a dry measure equivalent to twelve English bushels. There seems to be an error in the quantity here. [8] The author here seems to have confused the meaning of the word _mitote_ (see glossary). In Yucatan the instrument he describes is called _tunkul_. [9] The _machete_ is the large knife which the Indian men of Yucatan invariably carry with them. [10] The _arroba_ is the Spanish measure of twenty-five pounds. [11] We have been unable to find the meaning of the word _güero_. [12] _Calabaza_ is the Spanish for pumpkin; but the Mexican pumpkin is different from that raised in our latitudes. [13] _Jicama_ seems to be a local word not in the dictionary. [14] _Tzomes_, according to Sanchez de Aguilar, is the name applied to hairless dogs. The common appellation is _kúkbil_, or _kikbil_. _Tzom_ in Maya means a horn, also a proboscis. The word _tzomes_ is close to _tzimin_, pl. _tzimines_, the name of the tapir, which has an elongate snout. Alonzo Poncé who was in Yucatan in 1588, speaks of tapirs being called by the natives _tzimines_, and further states that they call horses by the same name, a definition to be found in the Maya dictionary of Pio Perez.