Note 1060 — Chapter XXIII · FOOD, DRESS, COMMERCE, AND WAR CUSTOMS OF THE MAYAS.

This history, written with Roman characters, but in the Quiché language, in the early years of the Conquest, was quoted by Brasseur de Bourbourg as the MS. Quiché de Chichicastenango, in his Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. i., pp. 59-60; a translation into Spanish by Ximenez appeared in 1857, Hist. Ind. Guat., pp. 79-80; and a translation into French by Brasseur de Bourbourg in 1861, Popol Vuh, pp. 195-9. Brasseur's rendering is followed for the most part in my text, but so far as this extract is concerned there are only slight verbal differences between the two translations.