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773. Fr. Bernardino de Sahagim. Psalmodia Christiana y Sermonario de los 

 Sanctos del Afio, en Lengua Mexicana. Mexico, 1583. (Of the voluminous writings 

 of Sahagun in the Nahuatl language, this appears to have been the only one 

 which was published during his lifetime. His profound knowledge of the tongue 

 gives his texts a high value.) 



778. Fr. Domingo de Sancto Thomas. Gramatica 6 Arte de la Lengua General de 

 los Indies de los Reynos del Peru ; y Lexicon 6 Vocabulario de la Lengua General de 

 Peru. Valladolid, 1560. (There were three so-called &quot;Lenguas Generales&quot; in Peru, 

 the Kechua, the Puquina, and the Yunca. The present work is in the Kechua, or 

 Quichua, that used by the Government, and presents the tongue in its ancient and 

 pure form.) 



799. P. Luys de Valdivia. Arte y Gramatica General de la Lengua que corre en 

 todo el Reyno de Chile, con un Vocabulario y Confessonario. Lima, 1606. 



800. P. Luys de Valdivia. Doctrina Christiana y Cathecismo en la Lengua Allentiac. 

 Lima, 1607. 



(These two works by Father Luys de Valdivia are upon the tongue spoken by the 

 native Indians of Chile. The Allentiac is one of the &quot;Chaco&quot; dialects in use at San 

 Juan de la Frontera.) 



810. Villegas. Libro de la Vida y Milagros de N. S. Jesu Christo en dos Lenguas, 

 Aymara y Romana; trad, por el P. Ludovico Bertonio. luli, 1612. (Father Ber- 

 tonio is almost the only authority on the Aymara language, spoken on the highlands 

 of Southern Peru and in Bolivia. There has been much discussion whether his Dic 

 tionary and grammar of it present the tongue in a pure form. The present work is 

 one of the rare issues of the Jesuit press established at the mission of luli, in the 

 province of Chucuyto.) 



DEPARTMENT OF PORTUGAL. 



The Kingdom of Portugal exhibited at the Exposition an attractive 

 collection classified under four different headings. 



Section first included documents and books relating to the discover 

 ies of the Portuguese, both in the New World and in southern Africa 

 and in Asia. Some of these referred especially to the centenary of 

 the discovery of America. A valuable collection of maps, drawings, 

 and pictures throws considerable light on the achievements of the Por 

 tuguese navigators in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. 



The second section was devoted to ethnography, especially Ameri 

 can. It embraced remains, instruments of music, weapons of offense 

 and defense, domestic utensils and ornaments, textile materials, masks, 

 costumes, and pottery, principally from Brazil. Some of the specimens 

 in clay came from the celebrated prehistoric site on the island of 

 Marajo. Others, more modern, were from the provinces along the 

 river Amazon, in which were noticeable attempts at decoration in the 

 same style as in the former, but carried out with less skill, showing a 

 retrogression in artistic science and in technique. Some of the gourds 

 and shells used by the modern Indians are delicately painted in Italian 

 style, owing their peculiar beauty, probably, to the instruction of the 

 Europeans. 



The remaining two sections were devoted to ornamental art and to 

 articles used in maritime service. These were indicative of a highly 

 developed state of economic skill in the nation which presented them, 

 but have no particular relation to the immediate topic of this report. 



