conquest of the Mexicans towards thegpufch. It appears to
have included a part of Guatemala. The Chorte is spoken at
Zacapa. It appears to have been the language of Chique*
mala, and extends eastward as far as the site of the ancient
Copan. The numerals of the Quiche and the Poconehi are the
same, and it may, as Mr. Gallatin says, be fairly inferred that
the Mayan and Guatemalan languages belonged to the same
stock.
' It was a remarkable discovery, made, as I believe, by Vater,
that the language of the Huastecas, who inhabit a country
very remote from Yucatan, is allied to the ■ Maya. The fol^*
lowing short vocabulary, which I copy from a learned memoir
by M. Temaux-Compans, will afford a strong indication of
the resemblance between the idiom of Yucatan and the Huas-
teca, and it will show the-diversity of both from the Mexican.*
English.
Numerals.
Mexican. Guatemalanr_^3tucaian. Huastecan.
1 Ce Hun Hun Hun
| | 2 Omey Cay Da _■ Tzab.
? .. Yey Dbri Ox Ox
4 Naui Cahi Can Tze
5 Macuilli Voo Tto : "Bo'
6 Chiquau Vakaki Uac Acac
7 Chicome Vaku : Uue Buc
8 Chicuey Vakxaqui .Uaxac | Tluaxic
9 Chicunaui -Belehe Bolou Belleuh
10 Matlactli Lahuh Lahun tahu
20f Cempoualli Huvinak Hunkal Huminie
Sun Tonatiuh Cih Kin Aquicha
Moon Meztli Yg ■ ■ Aytz:>
Star ; Citlati Ghumil Ot
Fool . Yexitl Akan Oi Akan
Eat, V. Tlaqua Quiva Hanal Capul
Drink Atli Quinagia Ukul Utzal
• 'Man Oquichtli Atchi Ninie Inic
* M. Temaux-Compans, Nouvelles Annales des Voyages, tom. iv.
+ It is remarkable that the Mexican numerals after 5 are compounded of
5 and 1, 5 and 2, &e.
t - The Huastecan race, asiwe have already observed, inhabited
a o^utfWyto- the/north ward Mexibh and Acolhuacan, which
reached to the" sea-con*st.- The Huastecas must have bordered
om'-the ©thornh HuaStedhpan is separated by the whole of
^chllmaf^Jandibl^t’fi^l'e^gth fff a great part of the Mexican
empireffrom Yud&tsfihl'and GuatetfafeV; ■ yet the languages of
the last-mentioned Oonn#€dsi'ate certainly connected with that
of the Huasthcas, • and^vitfce1 that. an intirfiate relation formerly
&^|dd«betwedn;^ theste northern and southern tribes, who are
How*' separated by many ihtervenin‘gh'provineesi >' >This fact
cannot be Mveounted for unless we allow that the whole
M'e^iehn' tace entered "the “'central regiowof America after the
Settlement-of the Mayan^ race,-ahd when the whole country
from HuaStecapan to Yucatan was inhabited by- that" people
and tribe's allied to them.#
Paragraph 3.—Antiquities of Central America.
It is probable that many of the works'Of art discovered in
different darts of Central America • were erected by nations
distinct from the Toltec and Aztec family, and this seems to
havd‘been the opinion of those^writers who have made extensive
researches in the country. Mr. Bradford has observed
that, although the ruins of Palenque, Copan, Mitlan, and
Uxmal, not only present many mutual analogies, but are
closely related by numerous features to those of Mexico, they
are more ancient and the production of a people not of Aztec
origin."f When the Toltecs settled in Mexico, they found it
inhabited by the Olmecas, a nation to whom the learned
Siguenza ascribed the construction of the pyramids of- Teotfc
huacan. In the south the Mixtecas and Zapotecas, who
spoke original languages, and in whose territory the ruins of
Mitlan are situated, appear also to have been ancient nations.
:v * I must not omit to, observe that Mr. Gallatin with his -accustomed caution
declines to draw any inference from the affinity between the Mayan and
Huastecan languages; He says that the style of monuments lately discovered
near the Rio Panaco is more like that of the Mexican than of the ruins of
Yucatese monuments. -f* Bradford’s American Antiquities.