[23-1] _Maya-uel_ may be from _maya_ and _ohel_, to know either intellectually or carnally; or the last syllable may be _uol_, will, desire, mind. This inventive woman would thus have been named "the Maya wit" (in the old meaning of the word). [23-2] Sahagun, _Historia de la Nueva España_, Lib. X, Cap. XXIX, p. 12. [24-1] Fray Diego Duran, _Historia de las Indias de Nueva España y Islas de Tierra Firme_, Cap. XIX (Ed. Mexico, 1867). [24-2] See _Lettre de Fray Nicolas de Witt_ (should be Witte), 1554, in Ternaux Compans, _Recueil des Piéces[TN-2] sur le Mexique_, p. 254, 286; also the report of the "Audiencia" held in Mexico in 1531, in Herrera, _Historia de las Indias Occidentales_, Dec. IV, Lib. IX, Cap. V. [27-1] I mention this particularly in order to correct a grave error in Landa's _Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan_, p. 130. He says, "Suelen de costumbre sembrar para cada casado con su muger medida de cccc piés que llaman _hun-uinic_, medida con vara de XX pies, XX en ancho y XX en largo." The agrarian measure _uinic_ or _hun uinic_ (one man) contained 20 _kaan_, each 24 yards (_varas_) square. One _kaan_ was estimated to yield two loads of corn, and hence the calculation was forty loads of the staff of life for each family. Landa's statement that a patch 20 feet square was assigned to a family is absurd on the face of it. [28-1] "La lengua castellana es mas dificultosa que la Maya para la gente adulta, que no la ha mamado con la leche, como lo ha enseñado la experiencia en los estranjeros de distintas naciones, y en los negros bozales que se han radicado en esta provincia, que mas facilmente han aprendido la Maya que la castellana." Apolinar Garcia y Garcia, _Historia de la Guerra de Castas en Yucatan_. Prologo, p. lxxv. (folio, Merida, 1865). [31-1] Friedrich Müller, _Grundriss der Sprachwissenschaft_, II Band, s. 309. (Wien, 1882). [31-2] Lucien Adam, _Etudes sur six Langues Américaines_, p. 155. (Paris, 1878). [35-1] Gabriel de San Buenaventura, _Arte de la Lengua Maya_, fol. 28 (Mexico, 1684). [40-1] _Mémoire sur la numération dans la langue et dans l'Ecriture sacrée des anciens Mayas_, in the Compte-Rendu of the Congrès International des Américanistes, Vol. II, p. 439 (Paris, 1875). [41-1] _Leti u Ebanhelio Hezu Crizto hebix Huan_, London, 1869. This translation was made by the Rev. A. Henderson and the Rev. Richard Fletcher, missionaries to the British settlements at Belize.