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The Güegüence; A Comedy Ballet in the Nahuatl-Spanish Dialect of Nicaragua

Note 6 — INTRODUCTION.

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Prof. Buschmann, who obtained these names in a garbled form from Ternaux-Compans' translation of Oviedo, gave them up as insoluble, while recognizing their value as indicating the wanderings of the Nicaraguans. "Unglücklicherweise," he says, "sind jene zwei Namen von so ungünstigem Gehalte, das ich nichts aus ihnen hervorlocken kann."—Ueber die Aztekischen Ortsnamen, p. 768 (Berlin, 1852).

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