Note 15 — INTRODUCTION.

The contrary of this has been very positively stated by Dr. Valentini (ubi supra). The only evidence he brings forward is the word calachuni, for chieftain, applied by Gil Gonzalez to one of the rulers in Nicaragua. This is, no doubt, the Maya halach uinic, holy man, but Gonzalez wrote in 1522, and this word was adopted by the Spaniards in 1518, during Grijalva's expedition to Yucatan, as the accounts show, and was promiscuously applied, just as cacique, canoe, etc., from the Haytian dialect. A careful analysis of all the native words in Oviedo's account of Nicaragua does not show a single Maya affinity.