JUAN ESTRADA DE RAVAGO (or Juan Strada Salvago.) "Descripcion de las Provincias de Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua y Tierra-firme y Cartagena, &c., &c." 6 May, 1572. (MS. copy of it belonging to E. G. Squier.)
"Memorial de las advertencias i cosas que la C. Cath, R'l M. del Rey i su Re. Consejo de Indias manda hacer, &c., &c." (MS. of E. G. Squier.) 1579.
FRANCISCO MONTERO DE MIRANDA. "Relacion dírigida al Ill'mo Señor Palacio, &c., &c., sobre la provincia de la Verapaz ó Tierra de Guerra." 1575. (MS. of E. G. Squier.)
FRAYLES: FRANCISCO VIANA, LUCAS GALLEGO, and GUILLERMO CADENA. "Relacion de la provincia y tierra de la Vera Paz," 1574. (MS. of Squier.)
FRAY TOMÁS CÁRDENAS. "Representaciones al Rey sobre el Estado de los Pueblos de la Vera-Paz."
FRAY TOMÁS CASTELAR. "Tratado de los Idolos de Guatemala."
"Triunfos de los Mártires del Orden de Predicadores en las Indias." Printed 1580.
FRAY TOMÁS TORRE. "Historia de los principios de la Provincia de Chiapas y Guatemala, del Orden de Santo Domingo."--Written prior to 1567.
FRAY DOMINGO VICO. "Historia de los Indios, sus Fábulas, Supersticiones, Costumbres, &c."
"Teologia para los Indios, en Lengua de Vera Paz." 4 vols. (Still existing.)
GERÓNIMO ROMAN. "República Indiana." (See Yucatan.)
This list is certainly far from complete, and it may be that among the vocabularies, grammars, and such works now lost, although we know of their former existence, there were some,--perhaps even many,--which contained historical and ethnological matter of great value.--It is hardly possible to avoid all allusions to such subjects in any work on linguistics. But the number of books of that class is too great for the purpose of the present list.
AUGUSTIN DAVILA-PADILLA. (See Yucatan. First edition appeared in 1595.)
GREGORIO GARCIA. (Plain and well informed, though brief.)
JUAN DE TORQUEMADA. (Important on organization and government, also myths.)
ANTONIO DE HERRERA. (Very full and important.)
ANTONIO DE REMESAL. (Not as full on antiquities as might be expected.)
AUGUSTIN DE VETANCOURT. (Very slight mention.)
FERNANDO DE ALBA IXTLILXOCHITL. "Relaciones históricas."--Of these, the thirteenth, "De la Venida de los Españoles," is of particular interest for Guatemala,--since it relates in detail Cortés' trip to Honduras. The "Relaciones" are printed in full in Vol. IX. of Lord Kingsborough's Collection,--the 13th however, was published under the title of "Horribles Crueldades de los Conquistadores de México," as appendix to Sahagun's "Hist-general," Vol. III., in 1829. From this, M. Ternaux made a French translation, published by him in 1838, as "Cruautés horribles des Conquérants du Méxique,"--in the first series of his "Voyages et Mémoires originaux, &c."