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never seen a copy of Marroquin’s Doctrina, I am unable to re- 
concile these discrepancies. 
The Dialoyos is a work hitherto unknown of ae Seng 
one of the most learned of the Franciscan missionaries, 
lived in the latter half of the 17th century. The only one of 
his productions given by Mr. Squier is “Sermones y Panegi- 
ricos en Lengua Cakchiquelche, ” which is that also chiefly re- 
ferred to by Father Coto in his dictionar ary. 
he next work is a small quarto of 109 leaves, Unfortu- 
nately the first leaf, with the general title, is missing. The 
top of the second leaf commences in the midst of a sentence in 
a Doctrina Christiana in Cakchiquel. This covers ten leaves, 
and is followed by two leaves of ‘ Preguntas de la Doctrina,” 
aliin Cakchiquel. Next comes a “Confessionario breve en 
sc Cakchiquel.” The Spanish translation of each ques- 
n and answer is also given. 
After the Confessionario are three leaves, unnumbered and 
blank, except that on the recto of the second is a Latin Prayer 
to the Virgin, difficult to deci pher 
n the recto of the next leaf i is the following,— 
h pe | de la lengua cak || chiquel. 
written in a clear small hand, covers fifty-four pages 
| an 30 lines on an average to the page, sometimes with o 
: sometimes* ek two, and ae with this ee = 
. a 24 de Junio de 1692 afios dia del Nacimiento de S$. 
Joan Baptista se acavo fg beadind de oraciones y Arte en Kak- 
ique 
: 
From the close of this to the 96th leaf there is another 
___ Series of doctrinal questions heade 
Vae Kutubal Khabal t ti || Aut ther richin Christianos || cak- 
chiquel Khabal ri || chin cokctigaat inak. 
_ seers the se modification of the consonants by 
~ 
cent Ferrer, related for the purpose of “ terrifying the natives, 
and dispelling the shame they usually have about confessing.” 
re is an index to the book, and on the verso of the last 
leaf ~ aoe in regard to the binding,—‘‘Este quaderno es 
de Fr, rto Mignez ;” said “quaderno ” being in dark 
Withou Sear and with strings. ‘The characters of Parra are 
sal Pe Fe See sc te hen rR OY len > is 6 Sa 
