Note 1084 — Chapter III · (continued 2)

Bancroft (Nat. Races, ii. ch. 24) translates these from Landa, Peter Martyr, Cogulludo, Villagutierre, Mendieta, Acosta, Benzoni, and Herrera, and thinks all the modern writers (whom he names, p. 770) have drawn from these earlier ones, except, perhaps, Medel in Nouv. Annales des Voyages, xcvii. 49. Cf. Wilson, Prehistoric Man, ii. 61. It will be seen later that Holden discredits the belief in any phonetic value of the Maya system. But compare on the phonetic value of the Mexican and Maya systems, Brinton in Amer. Antiquarian (Nov. 1886); Lazarus Geiger’s Contrib. to the Hist. of the Development of the Human Race (Eng. tr. by David Asher). London, 1880, p. 75; and Zelia Nuttall in Am. Ass. Adv. Sci. Proc., Aug. 1886.