[4-*] M. L'Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg, in his _Histoire des nations
civilisées du Mexique_ (Paris, 1859, vol. I. Preface), speaks of M.
Aubin as the translator of the manuscript "_Historia Tulteca_," as the
author of the _Mémoire sur l'écriture figurative et la peinture
didactique des anciens Mexicains_, in which he reconstructed the system
of Mexican figurative writing almost entirely, and as the present owner
of what remains of the celebrated Boturini collection, and of many other
historical treasures, gathered in his various travels.
[5-*] "In the Congress of Americanists held last July at Nancy, France,
M. Léon de Rosny delivered a masterly address on the Maya hieroglyphics.
He critically analyzed the attempts at decypherment by Brasseur de
Bourbourg and H. de Charency. The Bishop de Landa first discovered a
clue to their meaning. He made out seventy-one signs, which number Rosny
has increased to one hundred and thirty-two. Rosny has also determined
the order in which they should be read, as a rule from left to right,
but in exceptional cases from right to left."--[The Popular Science
Monthly, New York, May, 1876, pp. 118-119.]
[7-*] _Geographia de las lenguas y carta ethnografica de Mexico._ By M.
Orosco y Berra, Mexico, 1864. Introduction p. X. _La Situation actual de
la Raza indigena de México._ By Don Francisco Pimentel, Mexico, 1864,
Dedication.
[7-[+]] Views of Nature, page 131.
[8-*] Conquest of Mexico, New York, 1843, vol. III., page 404.
[8-[+]] Description of an ancient city near Palenque, page 6.
[9-*] _Quadro descriptivo y comparativo de las lenguas indígenas de
México_, by Francisco Pimentel, Mexico, 1865, p. 3. "The Maya is also
still the spoken language of the Island of Carmen, the town of Monte
Christo in Tobasco, and Palenque in Chiapas. With so much tenacity have
the Indians preserved this language that to-day they speak no other, so
that the whites find themselves obliged to learn it in order to make
themselves understood."
[9-[+]] _Geographia de las Lenguas, y Carta ethnographica de México_, by
Manuel Orosco y Berra, México, 1864, p. 156.
[10-*] _Los trés siglos de la dominacion Espanola en Yucatan._ By Fr.
Diego Lopez de Cogolludo,--Madrid, 1688.--Mérida, 1845, Lib. IV.,
Appendix A.
[11-*] The family of Don Manuel Casares consisted of his wife--a very
active and estimable lady,--three sons and six daughters. Of the sons,
the two eldest, David and Primitivo, were educated in the United States.
David Casares graduated with honor at Harvard College, and after a three
years course at the _Ecole centrale des Arts et Manufactures_, in Paris,
he passed a creditable examination for his degree. He was first
employed, on his return to his own country, as Professor of Mathematics
in the College of Minerva, a Jesuit College of Mérida, but is now
occupied in managing the plantation of his father, who died in 1864.
Primitivo, the second son, studied mechanics and engineering at the
scientific school in Cambridge, and employed himself in several machine
shops and foundries in Worcester and Lowell, to prepare himself to
introduce the use of machinery in his native country. He returned to his
home in company with the writer, but died a year after, stricken down by
fever, brought on by over-work while superintending the erection of
machinery, upon one of the estates in the neighborhood of Mérida. Both
these men were great favorites in Cambridge and Jamaica Plain, where
they resided, and are well remembered for their attractive and
interesting qualities. The writer became acquainted with many of the
prominent families of Mérida and Campeachy, from whom he received
hospitable courtesies and attentions; but it would here be out of place
to acknowledge personal obligations.
[12-*] _Histoire des nations civilizées du Mexique_, by M. L'Abbé
Brasseur de Bourbourg, vol. II., page 578.
[18-*] _Historia de Yucatan._ By Cogolludo. Mérida, 1845. Lib. III.,
cap. VII.
[18-[+]] Ibid. Lib. IV., cap. XII.
[19-*] Travels in Cent. Am., Chiapas and Yucatan. By J. L. Stephens. New
York, 1858. vol. II., page 403.
[19-[+]] _Geographia de las Lenguas y Carta Ethnographica de México._ By
Manuel Orozco y Berra, México, 1864, p. 100. Ibid. p. 115. _Quadro
descriptivo y comparativo de las Lenguas indígenas de México._ By D.
Francisco Pimentel. México, 1865. Tom. 11, p. 36.
[21-*] Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Stephens, vol. II., page 445.
History of the Conquest of Mexico, Prescott, vol. III., page 370.
[21-[+]] Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, vol. I., page 323.
[23-*] Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Stephens, vol. I., page 212.
[23-[+]] _Historia de Yucatan._ Cogolludo. Lib. III., Cap. XI.
[24-*] _Historia de Yucatan._ Cogolludo. Lib. III., Cap. VII.
[25-*] History of the Conquest of Mexico. Prescott, Vol. III., page 294.
[29-*] _Collection des Mémoires sur l'Amérique, Recueil des Pièces sur
le Mexique trad., par Ternaux-Compans_, p. 307.
[32-*] The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America. By
Hubert H. Bancroft. San Francisco, 1875. Vol. II., page 780.
[33-*] _Relation des choses de Yucatan._ By Diego de Landa, Paris, 1864,
pp. 44, 316.
[34-*] _Historia de Yucatan._ Cogolludo. Lib. VI. Appendix A, 1.
[35-*] Description of an ancient city near Palenque. Page 32.
[35-[+]] Prescott's Conquest of Mexico. Vol. I., page 101.
[36-*] The Native Races of the Pacific States. By Hubert Howe Bancroft.
Vol. II., page 771.
[44-*] _Historia de Yucatan._ Cogolludo. Lib. III, cap. VII.
[45-*] North American Review. Boston, April, 1876. No. 251, page 265.
[48-*] Remarks on the centres of ancient civilization in Central
America, and their geographical distribution. Address before the
American Geographical Society, by Dr. C. Hermann Berendt. New York,
1876.