1887.] »^ [Brintcn. 



Ixtab, p. 202. Compounded of the feminine prefix ir, and 

 tah, whicli as a verb means "to tie to something," and as a noun, 

 the gallows. 



Uinal-Hun-Ekeh, p. 204. In the original this reads Vinal, 

 Hunekeh. Of these words uinal is the ordinary Maya word for 

 month; 7ii/n is "one"; but e^e^ does not appear in any of the 

 dictionaries. Perez Dice. 3Iai/a, gives Keh as "the seventh 

 day." 



Zacab, p. 212. Brasseur explains this in a note as "une sorte 

 de mais moulu"; but the Dlcclonarlo de Motul, gives gakab, 

 " la cana del mais," cornstalk. The name of the deity, therefore, 

 was "The Nine Cornstalks." On the same page, zacah is in the 

 usual form gaca, and is pulverized roasted maize mixed with 

 cold water. Xante, on the same page, is not the cedar, as the 

 editor supposes, which in Maya is Kuche, but "a tree from 

 whose roots the natives obtain a 3'ellow dye " (Dice. Motul). 



Kami, p. 21 6, does not appear in the dictionaries. The Abba's 

 suggestion that it is an error for Kabul is possibly correct; or 

 it may be for Kauai, which means one who is very choice in food 

 and raiment {Dice. 3Iotul). 



Batel-okot, p. 218, means "battle dance." The similarity of 

 the Maya batel or bateel, to battle, a battle, to the English I have 

 elsewhere noted as an odd coincidence. 



Chacan-cantun, pp. 220, 222. The original has chacacantun, 

 and also Canzienal in place of Canziemil in Brasseur's text. 



On p. 222 and elsewhere instead of zac-u-uayeyab, the original 

 text gives uniformly zacuuayayab. 



The Translation. 



Bishop Landa's writings on this subject were evidentl3'' mere 

 memoranda, jotted down to await future arrangement and re- 

 vision. The copyist contributed to their obscurity, so that 

 passages of his ReJacion present peculiar difficulties, some of 

 which have led his translator wide of the mark. I shall point 

 out some of the most notable of these. 



p. 4. "tiene mucha lama"; "la plage y est tres etendue"; 

 more correctly "a beaucoup de limon." 



p. 16. "que por esto le llamaron Lazaro"; "queles Espag- 

 nols appellent de Lazare"; better "et pour cela ils I'appellent 

 Lazaro.^^ 



