1884,] 353 [Brinton, 
MS. dictionary in the National Library, Paris, and accommodated to the 
French orthography. 
1857, Extracts. in the original with a French translation from the 
‘‘Manuscript Cakchiquel ou Memorial de Tecpan-Atitlan’”’ in Brasseur 
de Bourbourg, ZZistoire des Nations Civilisées du Meaique et de V Amérique- 
Centrale (Paris, 8vo). Two pages, in two columns, French and Cakchiquel. 
The Abbé frequently referred to this document and considered it, with 
reason, one of the most important extant on the pre-Columbian history of 
America as well as for its great linguistic value. It was the work of a 
native Cakchiquel noble, Francisco Ernantez Xahila, who wrote most of 
it about 1570, and after his death it was continued by a relative, Francisco 
Gebuta Queh. " 
1862. Cartilla Breve traducida en Lengua Quiche y Cakchiquel al pié 
de Ja Letra para el uso de los Cristianos Indigenas. 2 pp. Pp. VII and 
VIII of the Grammaire de la Langue Quichée, by the Abbé Brasseur de 
Bourbourg (Paris, 8vo, 1862). The orthography is brought into con- 
formity to French types. The Abbé does not give the origin of this piece. 
The same volume contains a comparison of the three dialects, Kiche, Cak- 
chiquel and Tzutuhil, and a Vocabulary of Roots common to the three, 
both derived from the works of Father Francisco Ximenez. 
With the exception of a few unimportant vocabularies, by Galindo, 
Scherzer, and others, and the discussion of the Cakchiquel in general 
works on language, such as those of Hervas, Pimentel, Lucien Adam, 
etc., the above includes all the printed material relating to the tongue 
known to me.* 
I should not omit, however, to mention the interesting studies in com- 
parative grammar, which have been made with reference to it and its 
allied dialects by M. Hyacinthe de Charencey. His observations are based 
on a critical and conscientious analysis of the hitherto accessible materials, 
and are aided by an extensive acquaintance with the idioms of the Old 
World. The articles he has published, and which I name in a note, throw 
more light on the structure and relations of the whole group of languages 
* Since the above was in type, I have received Dr, Otto Stoll’s excellent mono- 
graph, Zur Hthnographie der Republik Guatemala (Zurich, 1884), in which, pp. 129- 
158, he gives a grammatical sketch of the modern Cakchiquel as spoken in the 
vicinity of San Juan Sacatapequez. He also adds many words and phrases in 
the tongue, 
PROO, AMER. PHILOS. 800. Xxt. 115. 28. PRINTED APRIL 2, 1884. 
