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l.iious II - % b. INF ~rcd from ue teshnos, q He
r,rs. Wv, with tn, languages OF Hsiuss4 Of wkisA

Oo IN, M h.r hand Pucrtrs, the cbron,elc, NJ J,.
,.raI. IN hs unpublished history, state d,.t,~,i,
That En-, POGO acs sBd PF- or MANUAL. 49,. ii~s,s
O. h., Ia ma have re1s we'd this impression iron,
be,lrr IIl ma mes used 10 designate tae language 81
Gus,a,anan. without knowing that two issgv2s-s
actually IN USE - .,.--
u,,e of the ~ called Chontss q ii)niursa s@t hos
Tsena II not indeed identical WITH II, "a suppcre1 ~
the circumstance that the name ioPoseos occur ~
,e,.a, from m, friend Coonei francf~o bf1 HsDsf4
"a the desiypatioo OF the language spoken IN TIC t7vs
a Totogaps Te,psDccs, Mc-onte ana so'o'o ofsnas.
in The DepaFtInent OF Nuey Sego,a olAe on Niesrs-
qua as late a. l7a-S6. NGcVs Sego' "a les oes .e~s
the Department of Chontales and Honinras, aei 'ts
nby .cal and aboTig mar sfnities are the sans.
This con IN, on supported by the fur he's tact sst
po,,,,,co and Cionf,V both pure Satusu OF Mes
csn words, signify ING strangers iore',nes ana oaos-
risns or those speaking bsrb,rois language. wnce
f,. we shah soon seel sCCords with the Use made o.
the term CLortoi desisnsiips al the rude sb,Is
NAL ma, on, Of Contra Amercs IN gcncss' In Mo
lina's Mexican Dictionary We h,Ie;
Fo,-oiaco bas bsrc boubre de o,rs nsoo isa-
gusje: - ,.n.,. 49,, y..,
on PoPoiocsc. ..,..
The only inference. that can be drawn from thssa
data is that the Popo,ucs heather LsleN ~ IN,
Kschauei nor Nahuati but some form of the Cb,s'
tai using that t. include the dialects spcsen oy
the rude and british" lndian nations o' Cn,n-
tales. Nueya Segovis. and the southern departments
of Honduras. The suppo,ton tina, the Poposcs vn
spokea in Mexico is probably founded upon m.s.s
in the photography Of the name OF the ssns.aa7e
which the Bishop Toral Wrote grammar snd NC
tionary. The Fray Francisco 1oral was a n"i's"
Ubeda. in SPAIN went TO Mexico. and was conse-
Grated Bishop of lucstsn in 100, s:,i died IA 70"
Franciscan Convent OF the City Of MeSco IN l.'I.
lie wrote: Artr ,FOcabNi0ryo dc Ia iFpsns TOO
Ioca Totonac1 and several catechlsins IN the same
language and not. supposed IN the work before u'.
in the Ltsgua PoroL,eA.
In the &" Addeuds," or Appendix 10 the work unts
The title Of Popoluca. the same author. by a.
ortbogrsphoal mistake in his name written IN TINS
instance Francisco de .JOroF1 is again quoted a.
author of a Popoluca. instead Of 70fofdcd, grammar
On n. 100 he /, quoted correctly author cf " Ar,e
"y yVcabuario de Ia Lengus Totonsca, etc.
"TLAsChTEkA.'
We have elsewhere IN the work under notice. tbs
title of Ilascateks givento dialect OF me msn-
can language spoken IN the State Of San Sai'sdof
Central America. This name sto, IL gwen on inc
authority of DIR. Scher,er, who, IN the pshPnet
already quoted, presented a vocabulary ootaned
fom the indians OF the town of Izslco, Department
of Sonsonate, Sau Salvador, whom he called " Ilass
caltekss.'
Now, the Indians of I1alco speak very pure Ma
huatl OF Mexican dialect; aud more than do,en OF
them whom consulted in 1853, all agreed ia denomi
mating their language Nshustl. A large number 81
Indian auxilares from Mexico, and among them
body Of T.ascallans, accompanied Don Pedro d"
Alvara,lo IN his conquest of Guatemala and Cuscatlan
tSan Salvador and IL not unlikely that lew w'rs
left in the latter country know they were IN tn,
former "a military colonists. II ia not impossible.
therefore, that descendants OF Ally srado 1iaS
caans may It'll exist in the vicinity of Sonsonate aod
Halco; bu the aborgines If this district indeed Of
the whole OF san Salvador between the Rio Paza
and the Rio Lempa, were all Nahnatls, and spoke
the Nahuat language at the time OF the conquest. a.
thew still do, in all the districts where the aboriginal
tongue is preserved The name Of Ppl was anc,cnty
applied 10 that branch Of the great Nshuatl family
occupying SaN ador, and their language bore tbs
same designation. Paacios. Henara, Fuenies and
Euar all, tha LAM zpala hN
Indians of Izalco, the Ppi, or Nshuat The new de-
nomination. therefore, given by DR.. Scherzer Is IN
critical, and incorrect.
"uTLATECA."
may mention incidentally that on p. 2tt the " It.
laeca" il quoted, on the authority OF leryas aud
Water allied to the Quichc and Kachiquel and as
being "~f,posed by Mr.; Squer to be identical with
tity of the QuichG and "Utlateca is not at all sup.
posttous. Vasquez in his "Croncs de la Pro-
vincia de Guatemala, printed in Guatemala in l71f.
vol. l., p7 speaks of the kechees Of Quessensuyo
md those Of Utlatan' of the Same nation" On
p - he speaks Of the Kingdom Of Kiche, the court
u Tor capitaD OF which is utlatan.' And again and
most concusively. on page lOi, In enumerating tho
aboriginal languages in which the Fray Betanzos be-
came expert, and in which he wrote, Nasquez says,
Saba perfectissimamente Ia lengua MeXcana, eli
" primer ano que estubo aqui en- Guatemalal apren-
do las lengua Guatemaltica (que "a la kachqueD,
ZotOgi Utlateca (que es Ia kiche) con tsnta per-
"eccion que afrman los naturales, que ssbia tsnto
g como ellos.' He speaks also p. 6@9, of the Fray
Francisco Salzedo "who understood perfectly the
three principal languages Of Guatemala the Cskchi-
quel (or that of Guatemslal, Quichc Tor Ctlateca
>and the Tzutuhil Tor Atitecal.
''TzBNDAL."
Under the title of "Tzendal." reference /. made ID
pretended vocabulary Of thirty words OF that Ian
guage. published by the late &. y. Raiinesque in his
atlantic Journal and Friend Ot kn0riedge. p. I9S.
Rainesque coniounds the Tzendal with the ChoutaI
without observing how widely they are distinguished
by the early writers, although detecting, what is true,
a close relationship between the Tzendal and ths
Maya, Quche, &c. The so-called Tzendal vocabu-
larry OF Rafnesque, however, il made up of Indian
words taken quite at random from Herara Juarros
Nilagutierre and other historians. with q few from
the charlatan Cabrera and il distinguished by il pos
sbe, greater lack of criticism, and thoroughly
ad captnndem presumption than most Of his phio-
logical Efforts. Some OF the words are Meti-
can; Others Maya; Others belong To some of m,
languages OF Honduras; one two are Span
l-h and number quite original coinages OF
his own. Nor do they always possess the signifi-
cation which he assigns to them. Thus he gives
broho, -orccrer, which is clearly the spanish 6rHj0
sorcerer; the Mexican nagaoi InahnoiJ spirit tsnv
thing occult or mysterious) and cUe temple aud dis
sects the name Comyzagual, mentioned by HerrarA a.
that OF one OF the divnes OF the Indians of Hondu-
ras sgnlfying fyng-tiger-thereby obtaining his so-
called Izendal words, c0mi flying, and gaguditiger!
The Quiche and Kacbiquel chay lake he defines 10
mean stone because 1t was applied by villsguterrs
Ia II lake IN which there large rock or rocky
island These examples might be multiplied, but Il
enough to that the so-caled Tzenda vocabulary
OF Ra6nesque is a pathological mposture.
''CHONTM OR CHoSDAL"
refer to this title IN part TO correct error into
which the editor had fallen, as regards a vocabulary
published by me, under this name, in my work on
Nicaragua. Having obtained from Mr. Froebel q
short vocabulary Of language spoken by the Indians
on the upper waters OF the Rio Escondido, Depart.
ment of Chontales, Nicaragua, 1 printed the same
designating it inerrogatlvely "CHosTAL ?" from the
district in which il was found. Subsequently. AMI
before the publication OF my work | obtsined infor.
NATION which ed I'M hall ". thu, a.. A..