Note 797 — Chapter III
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Tylor, Anahuac, 189, and his Early Hist. Mankind, 184. Orozco y Berra, Geog., 124. Bancroft, v. 169, note. The word Maya was first heard by Columbus in his fourth voyage, 1503-4. We sometimes find it written Mayab. It is usual to class the people of Yucatan, and even the Quiché-Cakchiquels of Guatemala and those of Nicaragua, under the comprehensive term of Maya, as distinct from the Nahua people farther north.