[207] The principal authority is the work of Diego de Landa, _Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan_. It has been twice published, once imperfectly by the Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg, Paris, 1864, 8vo.; later very accurately by the Spanish government, Madrid, 1881, folio. [208] The most profitable studies in the Maya hieroglyphs have been by Dr. Cyrus Thomas in the United States, Dr. E. Förstemann, Ed. Seler and Schellhas in Germany, and Prof. L. de Rosny in France. On the MSS. or codices preserved, see “The Writings and Records of the Ancient Mayas” in my _Essays of an Americanist_, pp. 230-254. [209] _Popul Vuh, Le Livre Sacré._ Paris, 1861. [210] _The Annals of the Cakchiquels, the original text with a Translation, Notes and Introduction._ Phila., 1885. (Volume VI. of my _Library of Aboriginal American Literature_.) [211] See “The Books of Chilan Balam,” in my _Essays of an Americanist_, pp. 255-273. [212] The name Huaves is derived from the Zapotec _huavi_, to become rotten through dampness. (_Vocabulario Zapoteco._ MS. in my possession.) It was probably a term of contempt. [213] _Nicaragua, its People and Scenery_, Vol. II., p. 310. [214] E. G. Squier, “A Visit to the Guajiquero Indians,” in _Harper’s Magazine_, October, 1859. A copy of his vocabularies is in my possession. [215] I collected and published some years ago the only linguistic material known regarding this tribe. “On the Language and Ethnologic Position of the Xinca Indians of Guatemala,” in _Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society_, 1884. [216] On the ethnography of the Musquito coast consult John Collinson, in _Mems. of the Anthrop. Soc. of London_, Vol. III., p. 149, _sq._; C. N. Bell, in _Jour. of the Royal Geograph. Soc._, Vol. XXXII., p. 257, and the _Bericht_ of the German Commission, Berlin, 1845. Lucien Adam has recently prepared a careful study of the Musquito language. [217] See Leon Fernandez and J. F. Bransford, in _Rep. of the Smithsonian Institution_, 1882, p. 675; B. A. Thiel, _Apuntes Lexicograficos_, Parte III.; O. J. Parker, in Beach’s _Indian Miscellany_, p. 346. [218] _Catalogo de las Lenguas conocidas._ Madrid, 1805. This is the enlarged Spanish edition of the Italian original published in 1784, and it is the edition I have uniformity referred to in this work. [219] _Personal Narrative_, Vol. VI., p. 352 (English trans., London, 1826). [220] _The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as set forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt; with the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by him on the American Verb._ By Daniel G. Brinton. (8vo. Philadelphia, 1885.) This Memoir was not included in the editions of Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Works, and was unknown even to their latest editor, Professor Steinthal. The original is in the Berlin Public Library. [221] _L’Homme Américain de l’Amérique Méridionale, considéré sous ses Rapports Physiologiques et Moraux._ Par Alcide D’Orbigny. 2 vols. Paris, 1839.