[11-*] The family of Don Manuel Casares consisted of his wife--a very active and estimable lady,--three sons and six daughters. Of the sons, the two eldest, David and Primitivo, were educated in the United States. David Casares graduated with honor at Harvard College, and after a three years course at the _Ecole centrale des Arts et Manufactures_, in Paris, he passed a creditable examination for his degree. He was first employed, on his return to his own country, as Professor of Mathematics in the College of Minerva, a Jesuit College of Mérida, but is now occupied in managing the plantation of his father, who died in 1864. Primitivo, the second son, studied mechanics and engineering at the scientific school in Cambridge, and employed himself in several machine shops and foundries in Worcester and Lowell, to prepare himself to introduce the use of machinery in his native country. He returned to his home in company with the writer, but died a year after, stricken down by fever, brought on by over-work while superintending the erection of machinery, upon one of the estates in the neighborhood of Mérida. Both these men were great favorites in Cambridge and Jamaica Plain, where they resided, and are well remembered for their attractive and interesting qualities. The writer became acquainted with many of the prominent families of Mérida and Campeachy, from whom he received hospitable courtesies and attentions; but it would here be out of place to acknowledge personal obligations. [12-*] _Histoire des nations civilizées du Mexique_, by M. L’Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg, vol. II., page 578. [18-*] _Historia de Yucatan._ By Cogolludo. Mérida, 1845. Lib. III., cap. VII. [18-†] Ibid. Lib. IV., cap. XII. [19-*] Travels in Cent. Am., Chiapas and Yucatan. By J. L. Stephens. New York, 1858. vol. II., page 403. [19-†] _Geographia de las Lenguas y Carta Ethnographica de México._ By Manuel Orozco y Berra, México, 1864, p. 100. Ibid. p. 115. _Quadro descriptivo y comparativo de las Lenguas indígenas de México._ By D. Francisco Pimentel. México, 1865. Tom. 11, p. 36. [21-*] Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Stephens, vol. II., page 445. History of the Conquest of Mexico, Prescott, vol. III., page 370. [21-†] Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, vol. I., page 323. [23-*] Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Stephens, vol. I., page 212. [23-†] _Historia de Yucatan._ Cogolludo. Lib. III., Cap. XI. [24-*] _Historia de Yucatan._ Cogolludo. Lib. III., Cap. VII. [25-*] History of the Conquest of Mexico. Prescott, Vol. III., page 294. [29-*] _Collection des Mémoires sur l’Amérique, Recueil des Pièces sur le Mexique trad., par Ternaux-Compans_, p. 307. [32-*] The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America. By Hubert H. Bancroft. San Francisco, 1875. Vol. II., page 780. [33-*] _Relation des choses de Yucatan._ By Diego de Landa, Paris, 1864, pp. 44, 316. [34-*] _Historia de Yucatan._ Cogolludo. Lib. VI. Appendix A, 1.