Note VI-3 — Chapter VI · ANTIQUITIES OF TABASCO AND CHIAPAS, RUINS OF PALENQUE.
Reading edition
'Une enceinte de bois et de pallisades.' Brasseur de Bourbourg, Palenqué, p. 32; see also the Spanish dictionaries. 'Tal vez es corrupcion de la palabra (aztec) palanqui, cosa podrida,' Orozco y Berra, Geografía, p. 84. 'Means lists for fighting.' Davis' Anc. Amer., p. 5. I remember also to have seen it stated somewhere that palenque is the name applied to the poles by which boatmen propel their boats on the waters of the tierra caliente.