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importance to the “ Popul Yuli.” In it the account 
of the creation is copied, as was natural, from the 
Quichi narrative; but the main portion of the work is 
a history of the revolution which led to the departure 
from Utatlan and the occupation of Iximclie, and also 
of the advent of the Spaniards and the subsequent events 
until the establishment of Christianity as the State re¬ 
ligion. The author was the grandson of the king who 
died of the pest in 1519; and his story goes to the 
year 1582, when another member of the same family 
continues it to 1597. 
The Tzutohiles (10), who, it will be remembered, were 
a fighting tribe on the shores of the Lago de Atitlan, 
are still of the same spirit; and when Mr. Maudslay 
attempted to photograph them, the women shook their 
fists in his face. The unwillingness to be photographed 
I also found among the Quiche women (old ones) of 
Sacapulas; but a word from the comandante subdued 
their opposition. 
The Ixils (1) dwell in the Sierras west of Coban, 
and the Mames (2) are found at San Marcos, Chi- 
antla, and Huehuetenango, all westward to Soconusco 
and south to Ocos. The Aguacateca (3) occupies a small 
space north of Utatlan, and the vocabulary given by 
Stoll differs entirely from that of Dr. Berendt’s already 
quoted. Chorti (16) is spoken at Chiquimula and Za- 
capa, and in the opinion of some is the language of 
the sculptors of the glyphs at Copan. Sinca (13) and 
Alaguilac (17) are almost unknown, and Stoll cannot 
classify them. 
The personality of these tribes is wholly absent from 
Dr. Stoll’s learned treatise; and my own knowledge 
