[1] Letter of Gil Gonzalez Dávila to the Emperor Charles V, in
_Costa-Rica, Nicaragua y Panama en el Siglo_ xvi, por D. Manuel E. de
Peralta, p. 9 (Madrid, 1833).
[2] _Historia General y Natural de Indias_, Part iii, Lib. iii.
[3] Palacio, _Carta al Rey_, Ed. Squier, p. 20.
[4] See the Report of Coronado in the collection of Peralta above quoted,
p. 777.
[5] Ibid, p. 704.
[6] “Vinieron antiguamente de la Provincia de Nicaragua unas gentes que
cansados de andar y de las descomodades que la peregrinacion trae consigo,
se quedaron en tierra de Chiapa, y poblaron en un peñol aspero orillas de
un Rio Grande que pasa por medio della y fortificaronse alli, porque nunca
se quisieron sujetar á los Reyes de Mejico, antes tenian continuamente
guerra con sus capitanes.” etc. Remesal, _Historia de Chiapa y Guatemala_,
Lib. iv, cap. xiii.
[7] _Arte de la Lengua Chiapeneca._ Por Fray Juan de Albornoz.
_Doctrina Cristiana en Lengua Chiapaneca._ Por Fray Luis Barrientos.
These two publications comprise Vol. i of the _Bibliothèque de
Linguistique et d’Ethnographie Americaines, publiée par_ Alph. L. Pinart
(Paris, 1875).
Dr. Berendt states that the natives pronounce the name of the province
_Chapa_, not _Chiapa_, and that the word is the Mangue _Chapa_, which
means their sacred bird, the Ara or Guacamayo, from which they named their
fortress in the State of Chiapas. Father Juan Nuñez, who was missionary
among them about 1620, and who preached and wrote in their tongue, also
called it “la lengua Chapaneca.” See Brasseur (de Bourbourg),
_Bibliothèque Mexico-Guatemalienne_, pp. 109, 110.
[8] _Cuadro Descriptivo de las Lenguas Indígenas de Mexico_, Tomo iii, p.
559 (Mexico, 1875).
[9] Latham, _Essays, chiefly Philological and Ethnographical_, p. 373
(London, 1880).
[10] See the excellent work of Dr. B. C. A. Nogueira, _Apontamentos sobre
o Abañeênga tambem chamado Guarani ou Tupi_, pp. 56, 57 (Rio Janeiro,
1876).