cords and traditions can afford, 
so as to be a real National 
Histokt of North and South 
America. C S. R. 
145, Chontal or Tzendal vo- 
cabulary 
I deem it proper to add here 
my small vocabulary of this 
language chiefly from Juarros 
and Cabrera Whereby it will 
be seen that it belongs to the 
same cluster of languages as 
the Maya* as the numbers and 
the word fVater will show. 
This last is nearly the same in 
all the L. from Mexico to Ni- 
caragua, for instance, 
A* AT in Mexican 
AT, N A in Quiche 
A, NA IHA, AMA in Tzendal 
BA in Mam 
HA in Uraba 
HA in Poconchi and Puctunc 
HA A in Maya 
MA in Tarasca 
I find the Chontal language 
called also Zeltal, Celtales, 
Tzendal, and Zentai, words of 
it thirty 
Lord or chief Mu 
Mountain Ha tez 
Father Pa 
River Sera 
Fountain Mai 
Tyger Zagual 
Flying Comi 
Year Vilbu 
Land Tulan , An 
Men Chon 
Great Ca 
Bun Aca 
Temple Cue 
Priest Papu% } Tapianes 
Sorcerer Brahos 
Village Pafmyu 
Stone 
Chala, Chaij 
Dance 
Huaste 
Holy 
Huatee 
Drum 
Tapana 
Snake 
Ch<vi 
Heart 
Votan 
King 
Mek 
Coat 
Tzequil 
Spirit 
JYagtial 
Place 
Milpa 
Water 
A , ha na , iha 
Aque 
Amague 
l 
U 
3 
Ohx 
10 
Xel 
Meantime the explorers of 
the ruins ought to give us a 
larger vocabulary of the mo- 
dern Tzendal, and also others 
of the dialects of the tribes 
Zoques, Queleries, Acalas, Mo- 
panes, Chorti, Quiche, Mara, 
locomam, Zutugil, Lencas, 
Ac. which Juarros mentions in 
the neighbourhood. C. S, R« 
146. Gypsies of Amehica* 
It is stated by Griscom in his 
account of the Gypsies in Sil- 
liman’s journal, that none have 
r eached America. This asser- 
tion is not true, since Southey 
in his History of Brazil posi- 
tiuely asserts the contrary and 
states that they are found both 
in Brazil and Buenos Ayres 
not in the cities of course, but 
in the country where they wan- 
der or carry on their petty 
trades. Most of them were 
sent there from Spain and Por- 
tugal as vagrants, where they 
are called gitanos. 
Thus we must add this na- 
tion to our list; of the modern 5 
