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islands in this lake, it contains numerous wild animals, such 
as deer, pecaris, monkeys, and panthers. The name is 
generally written Zapatero, a word which, translated into 
English, means " the shoemaker." But I never heard it 
pronounced otherwise than Zapotera, and I have no doubt 
that its correct form is Zapotera, meaning the Zapote 
Island. According to this derivation, the name is formed 
analogous to that of the island of Formentera, in the group 
of the Baleares. Zapote is the name of a well-known fruit 
of the tropics, very common in Nicaragua. In its original 
Aztec this latter name is Zapotl. In a similar manner a 
cluster of small coral islands in the gulf of Honduras is 
called the Zapodilla Keys, from the Zapodilla trees grow- 
ing on them. According to Mr. Squier, the old Aztec 
name of the island of Zapotera was Chornitl-Tenamitl, a 
compound, the second part of which occurs again in the 
name of another island in this lake — that of Solentenami. 
According to Mr. Buschmann, tenamitl, in the Aztec lan- 
guage, means a stone wall. 
On the evening of the 5th of December we doubled the 
outermost rock of the Corrales or Isletas, — a cluster of 
more than a hundred diminutive islands at the foot of the 
Mombacho, and a few hours after dark landed on the 
" playa " or beach of Granada. 
