New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-21

the large manuscript OF Fuentes, but 1t Is lees
interesting than thought to lind IT. Very good
materials be affords for the conquest and success
five epoch, but nothing for the old history Of the
country. i raw nothing, because l an convinced
Of IL. no that know sufficiently an almost talk
the Guicle. the Cakchiquel aod tho ZutJhl Ian.
suaee..-I can say, and affirm n you, that Fueufes
Rad in bis hands very precious Materials but that
he lever understood them, nor sought 70 under.
,tand, and the most Of what he says, aherward
copieS BY Juarro., 10 nonsense. Most Of the names
M Lirea and cities are adultersted, OF canno. be
found. possess now the principal documents be
saw. and understand them. | must add. for the
instruction Of all that nOae Of The Spiniards tried
10 learn what had BEEN once the CONDITION Of the
people they conquered, and that all of them, the
copauerors and their descendants, did what they
could 10 e1tipeuish the light OF old, and make the
indiana forget what they bad been. This was
their policy, aud IL has peth Puisuu Until TIC
present time
" The first thing that fell into my hands was
Cakcbiauel grammar, by Padre Flores, printed in
Antigua, Guatemala in 1883. IL was presented 70
NE by The provi.or and dean 81 the Cathedral. l
afterwaId got some Others, and DOW possess four
COPIES II contains q comparison with the Quiche
AVID Zgtobil These three metropolitan languages,
a. thew are called here, are but dialects of the
ssme; the Qulche differs little more than the ~
u hill. but tLey may he called sister languages, like
the Ionic Attic snd LacOnic dialects of Greece IL
vas my first occupation to learn them, as was
convinced thai never could do any thing good for
nv purpose without that knowledge, aud have
been working at them great deal since. Mean
tine had discovered the Origin al manuscript OF
Ximenes, Of which only part is copied in Ordones.
This Ms. is imposed of two distinct parts. The
fret contains in three large volumes history OF
the Copquest but especially REFERS 10 tte establish
nent of the Dominican order 10 the Kingdom OF
Guatemala to- ether with great many interesting
details of geography aud nsturol history.
The second part contains, fret, grammar,
most complete and rather mixed it is OF the three
metropolitan language cOmp,redin three columns
one with anotber-then follows a catechsm and
confessioDariO in the same language and Spanish,
and finally the old history Of Quicbe, in Spanish
and Qaiche Here 10 the title Of this very i'm
p0rtsnt and interesting book "Conpeazan las
bistoriss del oIieen de los Indos de esta proyin'
" cha de Guatemala trsducdo de Ia lingua. Qulche,
zen Ia Csstillana para mas c0modidad de los Min
"istros de ell SsntO EySDgeEco, pOr ell Rev. Padre
" Frse FrsDcsco XimeIes, cura dOctrina por Ell
d" real patrobato del pueblo de SantO Thomas.
Chuila :" which 10 EDp,h reads: Summary of
the histories of the origin Of the Indians vi this
Vice Roy atty OF Guatemala translated from the
Quiche IaDgooge to Spanish, for the greater con-
venierce Of The ministers Of the Church, by the
Rev Father Friar Francisco Ximenes, cure OF the
psrish Of Saint Thon as, in Chuila.
"1his begins with the creation Of the world, as
given BY Ordobes, who teok it here; but there are
pretty large discrepancies, and the latter has not
always been very faithful TO the original Ii IS the
same history of the semi gods, Hunappa aud
Xcalapque, but having the original narrative.
found out that with the exception of few mar
velous tales the uhOie is historical episode Of the
most Interesting character. The scene s generally
in the Quiche ana Vera Paz-most Of the places
and localities have been already able to discover
and must add tina; | have taken q copy OF the
whole, in Qucbe and Spanish, with my own hand.
After tie feni fabulous part of the book comes the
history Of the passage Of the Indians to these parts
Of America Thy came from The east not from the
southeast but from the northeast. speak only Of
tribes Of QOicheC akcbiquel and Zutohil, &c,
for long before them these countries were peOped
AID civilized They came from the north-saa-
certainly passed through the United States, and as
they say hentelvet, they crossed the sea IN dark
NESS mist cold and snop. i suppose they must
have come from Denmark aid Norway. They
came in small numbers, and lost their white blood
by their mixtures with the Indians whom they
found whether In the United States or these re-
goDs certainly there Dust have been lula in
our North European countries.
But what 10 more convincing of this migration
or passage, / fLd the same result by q compari-
ION of the languages / cannot speak Of the struc-
ture Of them but what have observed is that the
these regions Except the Mexican) are intimately
connected with the MAYA or Trendal, and that all
the words that are neither Mexican nor Maya be.
long TO our languages Of Northern Europe, VIZ {:
Fpglith, Saxon, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish,
Flemish and German some even appear u belong
TO the French aud Persian, and altogether they
are really very numerous and astounding 1t Is
perfectly plain that the invading tribes adopted
the language Of the yanquished, who were much
more numerous than Themselves, and that some
words only of their own language remhined-hence
the Quiche Cakctiquel, Zutohll, &c.
"Now leave your country men to make all the
suggestions they wish upon these strange colncl-
deDces Who knows but that the mounds and
Notifications found In Western New-YOrk Ohio,
Tennessee, Arkansas 90, were not made by the
same people, and by the colony Of Mortimer who
were know 10 exist in Massachusetts, and disap-
pesred after the tenth century,
Beside the narrative Of the passage OF the
Quicte, the manuscript gives the establishment Of
the Quiche empire and q sketch Of its history
TO tie conquest far different from Fuentes,
although some names are the same. Here l end
with AimeLes.
Beside the gramDer Of XiDenes, / have been
presented with some others-Quicbe, Cakchiquel,
Zutobil, Clansbal, PocoDain, &c--sl manu-
scnpts and possess re dictionaries Of these Ian
guases, also manuscripts more or less complete,
beside some other old papers on Guatemala and
Vera Fsz. ! have also come into possession OF q
manuscript history Of Guatemala, in Spanish,
which is very good, with large details on the as
trOnomy and religion OF these people; also OF q
manuscript history Of San Salvador: also another
of Vera Paz, another OF the rebellion of the Ten
dals, &c