1880.] 



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SELECTED TEXTS. 



Questions Addressed to the Chiefs. 



Holatama, bueta yechinoma cantela. 

 (Pareja's Confessionario, leaf 183 v. — 184 v.) 



Did you exact more tribute or 

 other articles from your subjects 

 than you were formerly in the habit 

 of doing? 



Did you exact the labor or day's 

 work from those who work for you? 



Did you employ your subjects at 

 some work, so that they missed the 

 holy mass? 



Did you order [them] to work on 

 feast days without the priests' per- 

 mit ? 



Did you order, that no one open 

 the corn -crib or approach it, unless 

 the conjurer has previously said his 

 prayers over it ? 



Did you forbid to eat of the new 

 maize or other new fruit, before the 

 conjurer has tasted it ? 



Did you design that weddings 

 should take place to the benefit of buasi mota viroma nacunata hibua- 

 the Indians without giving a share somata mosobi cho? 

 to the priest ? 



Did you consent to [your] slaves' 

 sleeping together? 



Do you keep any negro slave as a 

 mistress? 



Did you consent that some people 

 of your village recite incantations 

 over some herbs? 



Did you cause any conjurer to 

 search by diabolic arts for something 

 stolen or lost ? 



After eating bears' meat did you 

 ask fur drinking from another shell, 

 lest you would fall sick ? 



Andaque cumeleta hachibueno 

 hachi ichusubinaco Christ ianolenaye 

 ofucnona yameta hachima osoaro- 

 sota nichusimaca mobi cho? 



Ano pequataye inosobotequa ha- 

 cheleheco yerebana nayolehecoquene 

 hochi uquabi cho? 



Ano pequataye inosobo chique 

 Missaleno hani mobi ? 



Itimilenoye inosohale masetiqua 

 fetecatiqua fiesta equelama inosobi 

 cho? 



Ano misoma ituhutetima avoho- 

 pahama iqinoleheleqete mobi cho? 



Tapolabacaqe aya bono tocaco to- 

 coqe uquaca ano misoma hetetileta 

 heqeqere henolehabela motabi cho ? 



Anopira comeleta niamate natahi- 



Ateco anoco fastaqe nate manibi 

 cho ? 



Atemimaqua inihimi chu mosobi 

 cho ? 



Hicaye ano niye uquata ituhu- 

 teco hibuataqe nate naquenta hani- 

 mate manibi cho ? 



Nuquenoco hachibueno teraco 

 chebeque yalacosobi cho ? 



Ara-hete toomama nacunuma nina- 

 cusi chi caqe honi-hete ninacuqe ni- 

 qilabosohabele nacunu eyo nacunu- 

 lehaiie mosobi cho ? 

 proc. amer. philos. soc. xvhi. 105. 3k. printed march 27, 1880. 



