1884, ] 357 [Brinton. 
leaves in all, closely written, and gives the translation of about 4000 Cak- 
chiquel words. 
Vico, Domineo. + 1555. 
Native of Spain. Order of Preachers. Composed a Grammar and 
Vocabulary of the Cakchiquel, and in it some sacred poems, and the cele- 
brated Theologia Indorum. A copy of the latter is in the library of the 
American Philosophical Society. 
VILLACANAS, BentTO DE. + 1610. 
Native of Spain. Dominican. Wrote a Grammar and Dictionary, both 
preserved, and copies of both are in my collection. 
ViiitEaas, ANTONIO PRimTO DE. 17th century. 
Commissary of the Holy Office. For thirty years beneficiado of Matza- 
tenango. Thoroughly versed in Kiche. Wrote Zratado sobre el Baile 
Lotetun. Coto. 
XAHILA, FRANCISCO ERNANTEZ ARANA. {15(?). 
A native writer. Composed the Annals of his nation, the so-called Me- 
morial de Tecpan-Atitian. Copy in the Brasseur collection and another in 
mine, 
XimMENES, FRANcrsco. Flourished 1710, 
Native of Spain. Dominican. Wrote a Catechism and Confessionario 
in Cakchiquel, and a Comparative Grammar of the three dialects, printed 
by Brasseur de Bourbourg. See above. 
To the above should be added various anonymous productions and 
those whose authors are unknown. Among the last mentioned is the 
work now printed, to the authorship of which I have obtained no clue. 
In the National Library at Paris there isa fine 4to MS., of 202 pp., in 
Cakchiquel, dated 1558, said to be a translation of the Pentateuch (?). 
That library also possesses an anonymous Vocabulario en lengua Castel- 
lata y Guatemalteca, a recent copy of a much older work. 
I have in my library a Calendario de los Indios de Guatemala, 1685, in 
Cakchiquel, a copy of an original in the city of Guatemala, and I have 
heard of other written calendars in various parts of that country. 
§ IV. Phonology of the Cakchiquel. 
The Spanish missionaries complained of the idioms of Guatemala as ex- 
cessively rough and guttural, con asperisima pronunciacion gutural, as the 
