64 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BuLu, 44 
northwestern border. Stoll, in his map, gives an area extending 
across the north-central portion of Guatemala, spreading out to a 
considerable extent around the Gulf of Dulce. The fact that a por- 
tion of the tribe still resides in the vicinity of the Gulf of Dulce is 
confirmed by Maudslay. As Stoll’s map relates to an earlier date 
than either of the others, and is based chiefly on the data furnished 
by Juarros, who names the pueblos where it was spoken, it probably 
gives more correctly the area formerly occupied by the tribe. As this 
author (Stoll) limits his map to Guatemala, the area in Chiapas is not 
given; however, it is referred to in his text (2:90) as including the 
pueblos Santo Domingo del Palenque, San Pedro Sabana, Salto de Agua, 
Tumbala and Tila in Chiapas. He adds that a few Chol families are 
found in Tenosique in Tabasco. He states also that they claim their 
territory formerly extended from the borders of Chiapas to the 
Gulf of Dulce. Charencey (96) says the Chol commence about 23 
leagues east of Cahabon. How this is to be understood is not very 
clear. The area as given on the present map is a modification of * 
Stoll’s map, so as to form a compromise with the other authorities. 
Pimentel and Orozco y Berra give Mopan as a synonym of Chol, 
though by others it is considered a subdialect of Maya proper. 
CHANABAL 
(Synonym: Tojolabal) 
The small tribe speaking this idiom is located by Orozco y Berra 
along the southeastern border of Chiapas where it joms the Guate- 
malan territory; Sapper’s map v shows two small areas, one within 
the bounds given by Orozco y Berra between the areas assigned the 
Jacalteca and the Chicomucelteca, and the other about the pueblo 
of Comitan and wholly embraced in the Tzental territory: this map, 
however, relates to present conditions. Orozco y Berra seems to 
have included: portions of the Chicomuceltecan population, as one 
of the pueblos he names (1:167) is Chicomucelo. Charencey (95) 
limits the tribe chiefly to the parish of Comitan. 
The Chafiabal (Berendt writes Chafeabal) is placed by Stoll in his 
Tzental group, a classification which is now generally accepted. 
The area, as mapped in the present work, is a compromise between 
that of Sapper and Orozco y Berra, as the former is based on the 
present reduced state of the tribe, while the latter mcludes areas 
belonging to other tribes. In a subsequent work (1:132) Stoll 
includes the Jacaltenango pueblo in the Chuje (or Chuhe) territory, 
and corrects the mistake into which he had been led by Juarros in 
naming the language of this section Pokomam., 
