Description of an ancient city near Palenque, page 6.

[9-*] _Quadro descriptivo y comparativo de las lenguas indigenas de
Mexico_, by Francisco Pimentel, Mexico, 1865, p. 3. "The Maya is also
still the spoken language of the Island of Carmen, the town of Monte
Christo in Tobasco, and Palenque in Chiapas. With so much tenacity have
the Indians preserved this language that to-day they speak no other, so
that the whites find themselves obliged to learn it in order to make
themselves understood."

[9-[+]] _Geographia de las Lenguas, y Carta ethnographica de Mexico_, by
Manuel Orosco y Berra, Mexico, 1864, p. 156.

[10-*] _Los tres siglos de la dominacion Espanola en Yucatan._ By Fr.
Diego Lopez de Cogolludo,--Madrid, 1688.--Merida, 1845, Lib. IV.,
Appendix A.

[11-*] The family of Don Manuel Casares consisted of his wife--a very
active and estimable lady,--three sons and six daughters. Of the sons,
the two eldest, David and Primitivo, were educated in the United States.
David Casares graduated with honor at Harvard College, and after a three
years course at the _Ecole centrale des Arts et Manufactures_, in Paris,
he passed a creditable examination for his degree. He was first
employed, on his return to his own country, as Professor of Mathematics
in the College of Minerva, a Jesuit College of Merida, but is now
occupied in managing the plantation of his father, who died in 1864.
Primitivo, the second son, studied mechanics and engineering at the
scientific school in Cambridge, and employed himself in several machine
shops and foundries in Worcester and Lowell, to prepare himself to
introduce the use of machinery in his native country. He returned to his
home in company with the writer, but died a year after, stricken down by
fever, brought on by over-work while superintending the erection of
machinery, upon one of the estates in the neighborhood of Merida. Both
these men were great favorites in Cambridge and Jamaica Plain, where
they resided, and are well remembered for their attractive and
interesting qualities. The writer became acquainted with many of the
prominent families of Merida and Campeachy, from whom he received
hospitable courtesies and attentions; but it would here be out of place
to acknowledge personal obligations.

[12-*] _Histoire des nations civilizees du Mexique_, by M. L'Abbe
Brasseur de Bourbourg, vol. II., page 578.

[18-*] _Historia de Yucatan._ By Cogolludo. Merida, 1845. Lib. III.,
cap. VII.