THOMAS] INDIAN LANGUAGES OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA vel 
Juarros (2: 271) places the Lacandon along the Passion river. 
Squier (2: 65) gives as_their habitat ‘the vast region lying between 
Chiapa, Tabasco, Yucatan,-and the republic of Guatemala.” 
Berendt (1: 425) says ‘‘they are reduced to-day to a very insignificant 
number living on and near Passion river and its tributaries.”? Stoll, 
whose map is limited to Guatemala, indicates for this people only an 
area in the extreme northwestern corner of this republic. Sapper 
marks on his map v the Lacandon area as partly in Chiapas and 
partly in Guatemala, the territory in the former, which includes the 
larger portion, being situated in a triangle west of the Usumacinta 
river, adjoining the Tzental area; and the latter as extending in a 
narrow strip along the Chixoy, or Rio Negro, southward into the 
border of the Kekchi territory. 
It is stated by some authorities that the Western Lacandones, 
who they claim are now extinct, spoke a language different from that 
used by those of the east. A subsequent examination has shown that 
the former people probably belonged to the Chol group, a conclusion 
which would account for the supposition that they are extinct. 
Charnay (437) places them on both sides of the Usumacinta in the 
region of Lorillard City (or Menche). They are not indicated on the 
present map. 
Itza (or Peten).—Stoll’s map gives no defined area for the people 
speaking this dialect, including it under Maya. This course is 
followed by Sapper also, on his map v; but in his map vit, showing 
the distribution of the ruin-types, he marks as the area of the Peten 
tribes all the northern part of Guatemala (except a small strip on the 
western side), extending south to the sixteenth parallel, or to the 
border of the Kekchi territory, and eastward to the Caribbean sea, 
omitting the middle portion of both the Chol and the Mopan areas 
as given by Stoll. From the writer’s study of Villagutierre’s History of 
the Conquest of the Itza he receives the impression that at the height 
of their power the Itza had extended their territory for some distance 
northward, in the form of a triangle, into the southern part of the 
state now designated Yucatan. This author says (489) that they 
hoid toward the south the province of Vera Paz in the kingdom of 
Guatemala; toward the north provinces of Yucatan; toward the east 
to the:sea; toward the west to Chiapas, and southeast to the borders 
of Honduras. This region corresponds very nearly with the area 
marked on Sapper’s map vit, but it unquestionably encroaches on 
‘the territory of other peoples. 
The language of the Itza was but slightly different from pure 
Maya; the language spoken by the inhabitants of Chichen Itza in 
the peninsula does not appear to have been other than pure Maya. 
Mopan.—Very little is known in regard to this language, as no 
vocabulary of it was ever obtained, so far as the writer is aware, 
