"Historia de los Chichimecos, o' reyes antiguos de Tezcuco."--Casual mention of Guatemala.--Published in Kingsborough, Vol. IX., and translated by Ternaux and printed in French as "Histoire des Chichiméques ou des anciens rois de Tezcuco," in 1840.--(2d Series.)--Besides these, there are found references to Guatemala in the "Sumaria Relacion, de los Toltecas." (Kingsb. IX.)--Ixtlilxochitl, though full of details, is always a very suspicious source.--He is the representative of _one tribe exclusively_.
FRANCISCO ANTONIO FUENTES Y GUZMAN. "Recordacion florida; Discurso histórico, natural, material, militar, y político del reyno de Guatemala." MS. of 1690. Original in the municipal archives of the city of Guatemala. Copy at the "Museo Nacional."--Fuentes is like Ixtlilxochitl--both have the same tendency to extol their native tribes--still both must be carefully studied and critically examined.--A publication of Fuentes, well and judiciously annotated, would be highly useful.
FERNANDO ESPINO. "Historia de la reduccion y conversion de la Provincia de Taguzgalpa, con la Vida de los tres Mártires."--Printed at Guatemala, 1674.--Whether and where it still exists I do not know.
LIONEL WAFER. "A new Voyage and description of the Isthmus of America."--London, 1699.
FRAY THOMAS GAGE. "New survey of the West Indies." (A work which is looked upon with great suspicion, because the author, although he evidently went to Guatemala from Mexico, misrepresents a great many facts. Still he cannot be overlooked.)--This book appeared first prior to 1676.--Robertson quotes an English edition of 1677, and that of 1699 is the fourth edition. There are French editions of 1676, 1694-5, 1699 1720, 1721. Dutch of 1682, 1700. German of 1693. Spanish, 1838.--Yet this list is evidently still incomplete, as further material is out of my reach.
ANTONIO DE LEON Y PINELO. "Tratado de Confirmaciones Reales de Encomiendas, Oficios, y casos en que se requieren para las Indias Occidentales." Madrid, 1630.--This work is one of the best on many vital points of Spanish administration,--and since the latter is so intimately connected with the past and present condition of the aborigines as to make its knowledge absolutely necessary,--it must be attentively studied.--I shall, for this reason, add below the books of Solòrzano: