Note 936 — Chapter III

See Vol. II. 419; Bancroft, Nat. Races, v. 564; Bandelier in Am. Antiq. Soc. Proc., i. 105. Bandelier (Peabody Mus. Repts., ii. 391) says that it is now acknowledged that the Recordacion florida of Fuentes y Guzman is “full of exaggerations and misstatements.” Brasseur (Bib. Mex.-Guat., pp. 65, 87), in speaking of Fuentes’ Noticia histórica de los indios de Guatemala (of which manuscript he had a copy), says that he had access to a great number of native documents, but profited little by them, either because he could not read them, or his translators deceived him. Brasseur adds that Fuentes’ account of the Quiché rulers is “un mauvais roman qui n’a pas le sens commun.” This last is a manuscript used by Domingo Juarros in his Compendio de la historia de la ciudad de Guatemala (Guatemala, 1808-1818, in two vols.—become rare), but reprinted in the Museo Guatemalteco, 1857. The English translation, by John Baily, a merchant living in Guatemala, was published as a Statistical and Commercial History of Guatemala (Lond., 1823). Cf. Vol. II. p. 419. Francisco Vazquez depended largely on native writers in his Crónica de la Provincia de Guatemala (Guatemala, 1714-16). (See Vol. II. p. 419.)