SPANISH INSCRIPTIONS. I9 



This iiiscriplion is reproduced by Simpson, plate 67, and 

 Luiumis, page 17S. It is incompletely translated by Simpson, 

 page 124, Lummis, page 178, and Bandelier, pages 330-331. 



On the rock, some distance below this inscription, appears 

 the name " Bartolome Naranjo." Simpson, in contradiction 

 to his own plate, transfers this to the beginning of the first 

 line and then translates it as "Bartolome Narrso, Governor 

 and Captain General," etc. His plate shows nothing preced- 

 ing the letters ' ' soy ' ' of the present reproduction and trans- 

 literation. I^ummis, however, figures some vaguely formed 

 letters at this same place, which he transliterates " Kl Illustris- 

 inio Senor " and then translates the beginning of the first line 

 as "The most illustrious sir and captain-general," etc. The 

 accompanying photograph agrees with Simpson's plate and 

 affords no foundation for his or L,ummis' insertion of name or 

 title before or instead of "soy." Bandelier ignores the diffi- 

 culty by beginning the inscription " El capn genl," etc. 



In support of the present transliteration it may first be 

 noted that it preserves the marginal line of the whole inscrip- 

 tion and begins it with an appropriately ornamented letter. 

 The form of this letter, or, more properly, compounded letter, 

 is characteristic of an initial. If so, it is plainly a combined 

 " so " which the following " y " completes into " soy." This 

 style of beginning an inscription is quite common, and in fact 

 occurs again on the same rock in an inscription reproduced on 

 Plate II of the present list. The grammatical person changes 

 in the " paso " following the introductoiy words. The first 

 clause is annunciatory : the second is narrative. A similar 

 grammatical change is made in the inscription on Plate VI, 

 where several third-person forms are followed by first-person 

 forms of verbs referring to the same subject. 



The perversions of meaning in Simpson's translation need 

 no comment here, since they have been corrected b>' Lummis 

 and Bandelier. But it is curious that both the latter authors 

 should leave " loada " untranslated, and the more so because 

 Simpson had already rendered it quite fairly as "famed," 



