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Title: The Annals of the Cakchiquels

Author: Daniel G. Brinton

Release Date: March 8, 2007 [EBook #20775]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Note:

A number of typographical errors and inconsistencies have been maintained
in this version of this book. Typographical errors have been marked with
a [TN-#], which refers to a description in the complete list found at the
end of the text. A list of words that have been inconsistently spelled or
hyphenated is found at the end of the present text.

The following codes are used for characters that are not present in the
character set used for this version of the book.

[)a] a with breve
[=a] a with macron
[c] quatrillo, resembles a 4 with a tail
[c,] quatrillo with comma
[t] tresillo, resembles a reversed 3
[tz] resembles a tz drawn together

LIBRARY
OF
ABORIGINAL AMERICAN
LITERATURE.

No. VI.

EDITED BY
D. G. BRINTON

BRINTON'S LIBRARY OF
ABORIGINAL AMERICAN LITERATURE.
NUMBER VI.

THE ANNALS
OF THE
CAKCHIQUELS.

THE ORIGINAL TEXT, WITH A TRANSLATION, NOTES AND
INTRODUCTION.

BY

DANIEL G. BRINTON

1885, Philadelphia

PREFACE.

Both for its historical and linguistic merits, the document which is
presented in this volume is one of the most important in aboriginal
American Literature. Written by a native who had grown to adult years
before the whites penetrated to his ancestral home, himself