Note 946 — Chapter III

A list of Squier’s published writings was appended to the Catalogue of Squier’s Library, prepared by Joseph Sabin (N. Y., 1876), as sold at that time. By this it appears that his earliest study of these subjects was a review of Buxton’s Migrations of the Ancient Mexicans, read before the London Ethnolog. Soc., and printed in 1848 in the Edinb. New Philosoph. Mag., vol. xlvi. His first considerable contribution was his Travels in Cent. America, particularly in Nicaragua, with a description of its aboriginal monuments (London and N. Y., 1852-53). He supplemented this by some popular papers in Harper’s Mag., 1854, 1855. (Cf. Hist. Mag., iv. 65; Putnam’s Mag., xii. 549.) A year or two later he communicated papers on “Les Indiens Guatusos du Nicaragua,” and “Les indiens Xicaques du Honduras,” to the Nouvelles Annales des Voyages (1856, 1858), and “A Visit to the Guajiquero Indians” to Harper’s Mag., 1859. In 1860, Squier projected the publication of a Collection of documents, but only a letter (1576) of Palacio was printed (Icazbalceta, Bibl. Mex., i. p. 326). He had intended to make the series more correct and with fewer omissions than Ternaux had allowed himself. His material, then the result of ten years’ gathering, had been largely secured through the instrumentality of Buckingham Smith. (See Vol. II. p. vii.)