Note 932 — Chapter III
Reading edition
Cf. Am. Antiq. Soc. Proc., n. s., vol. i. 109; and his paper, “On the Sources of the Aboriginal Hist. of Spanish America,” in the Am. Asso. Adv. Sci. Proc., xxvii. 328 (Aug., 1878). In the Peabody Mus. Eleventh Report, p. 391, he says of it that “it appears to be for the first chapters an evident fabrication, or at least accommodation of Indian mythology to Christian notions,—a pious fraud; but the bulk is an equally evident collection of original traditions of the Indians of Guatemala, and as such the most valuable work for the aboriginal history and ethnology of Central America.”