14 HOOPKS AND BROOM ALL : 



ton, Senor Donaciano Vigil, secretary of the province, and 

 Mr. Samuel Ellison, the official translator" in the State 

 Department. This is the only publication purporting to give 

 a complete transcript of the rock, and, notwithstanding the 

 defects of both plates and linguistic work, it remains to-day 

 the authority for what was written on the rock. 



An able student of the subject is Charles F. Lumniis. It 

 is to be regretted that his work — at leaist, as published — is 

 only partial. It consists of a chapter entitled "The Stone 

 Autograph Album," in his book, "Some Strange Corners of 

 Our Country," New York, 1898, and its value is enhanced bj^ 

 the historical setting in which Mr. Lummis' knowledge of the 

 Southwest enables him to place the rock and its memorials. 

 But the representations and translations of such of the inscrip- 

 tions as he gives, while far better than Simpson's, are not as 

 accurate as they might be. 



A. F. Bandelier visited the rock about 1889 and copied the 

 inscriptions. He describes the locality and gives historical 

 data and translations of a few of the inscriptions in his " Final 

 Report of Investigations among the Indians of the Southwest- 

 ern United States, Part II," in " Papers of the Archaeological 

 Institute of America, American Series, IV," Cambridge, 1892, 

 pages 329-332. 



In the work of Elliott Coues entitled "On the Trail of a 

 Spanish Pioneer : the Diaiy and Itinerary of Francisco Garces, 

 etc., 1775-1776," New York, 1900, Vol. II, p. 374-380, appear 

 representations of two of the inscriptions upon three well- 

 executed plates, of which two are reproductions from Simpson 

 and the third is from a photograph taken by Mr. Lummis. 

 Notes, one accompanying the plates and the other on pages 

 478-479, give historical data and translations, mainly from 

 Bandelier, Bancroft, Eummis and F. W. Hodge. 



The foregoing seem to be all the published plates and liter- 

 ature on the inscriptions of El Morro. 



The plates herewith presented are from photographs taken 

 in August, 1904. They are faithful reproductions of nine of 



