Ixxxvi NOTES. 



Stephens, who ascended it in 1840, found no sensible trace of ignition. On the 

 Chorotega language, the meaning of the word Masaya, and the Maribios, see 

 Buschmann's ingenious ethnographic investigations Ueber die aztekischen Orts- 

 namen, S. 130, 140, and 171. 



( 878 ) p. 255. "Les trois compagnons convinrent dedire qu'ils avaient trouve 

 de grandes richesses ; et Fray Bias, que j'ai connu comme un homme ambitieux, 

 rapporte dans sa relation le serment que lui et les associe's firent sur 1'e'vangile, 

 de persister h, jamais dans leur opinion que le volcan contient de 1'or m6le d'ar- 

 gent en fusion." Oviedo, Descr. de Nicaragua, cap. x. p. 186 and 196. The 

 chronicler de las Indias is very angry at Fray Bias having said that " Oviedo 

 had begged the emperor to give him El Infierno de Masaya in his coat of arms." 

 This would not, however, have been against the heraldic customs of the age; 

 for the brave Diego de Ordaz,who boasted of having reached the crater of Popo- 

 catepetl when Cortez first penetrated into the Valley of Mexico, received that 

 volcano as an addition to his arms, as did Oviedo the constellation of the 

 Southern Cross, and, earliest of all, Columbus (Examen crit. t. iv. p. 235 240) 

 a fragment of a map of the Antilles. 



( 379 ) p. 255. Humboldt, Ansichten der Natur, Bd. ii. S. 276. 



( 39 ) p. 256. Squier, Nicaragua, its People and Monuments, vol. ii. p. 104. 

 (John Baily, Central America, 1850, p. 75.) 



( 391 ) p. 256. Memorie geologiche sulla Campania, 1849, p. 61. I found 

 the height of the volcano of Jorullo 1680 feet above the plain in which it rose 

 and 4265 feet above the sea. 



2) p 257. La Condamine, Journal du Voyage a 1'Equateur, p. 163; the 

 same, in the Mesure de trois Degre's de la Me'ridienne de THdmisphere austral, 

 p. 56. 



C 383 ) P- 257. At the country*house of the Marques de Selvalegre, the father 

 of my unfortunate companion and friend Don Carlos Montufar, one was often 

 inclined to attribute the bramidos which resembled the firing of a distant 

 battery of heavy guns, and were heard with exceedingly unequal intensity, the 

 direction of the wind, and the state of the atmosphere, temperature, &c., remain- 

 ing unchanged, not to Sangay, but to Guacamayo, a mountain forty miles 

 nearer, at the foot of which a path leads from Quito by the Hacienda de Anti- 

 sana to the plains of Archidona and the Rio Napo. (See my special map of the 

 Province of Quires, No. 23 of my Atlas ge'ogr. et phys. de 1'Amerique, 1814 

 1834.) Don Jorge Juan, who heard the Sangay thunder much nearer than I 

 did, says decidedly that the bramidos, which he terms the ronquidos del volcan 

 (Eelacion del Viage a la America Meridional, Pt. I. t. ii. p. 569), belong to 

 Sangay, or Volcan de Macas, whose voice, if I may use the expression, is very 



