The native races of the Pacific states of North America / by Hubert Howe Bancroft.

Date:
1875
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    The Choniahs dwell in the mountain districts N.E. of Lake Nicaragua, besides having miscellaneous villages in Guerrero, Oajaca, Tabasco, Guate- mala, and Honduras. ‘ En el Departamento de Tlacolula. . y se encuentran choutales en Guerrero, en Tabasco y en Guatemala.’ Orozco y Jkrra, Geo- grafki, pp. 186-7. In San Salvador, Choluteca, Honduras, Nicaragua. Palacio, in Pacheco, Col. Doc. Ined., tom. vi., pp. 7, 26, 35.‘ QuiechApa 20 Leguis sudostlich von Oajaca und 10 Leguas sudwestlich von Nejapa ... .An den Griinzen des Landes derChontales.’.... ‘ Tlapalcatepec. Haupt- ort im Laude der Chont iles.’ Miihlenpfordl, Mejico, tom. ii., pt i., pp. 172-3, 175, 102. ‘Les Chontales s’etaient vus en possession de toute la contr^e qui s’etend entre la mer et la chaino de Quyecolani .. etaient en posses- sion non seulement de Nexapa, mais encore de la portion la plus importante de la montague de Quiyecolani.’ Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., pp. 3, 47. ‘ Au nord-ouest du grand lac, les Chondals occupaient le district montagneux appele encore aujourd’hui Chontales, d’apres eux.’ Holins/ci, La, Californie, p. 290. ‘ Inhabitants of the mountainous regions to the north-east of the lake of Nicaragua.’ Froebel’s Cent. Amer., p. 52. ‘ Au nord des lacs, les Chontales barbares habitaient la cordillere.’ Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ , tom. ii., p. 110. ‘ The Chontals covered Chon- tales, northward of Lake Nicaragua, and lying between the tribes already given, and those on the Caribbean Sea.’ Stout's Nicaragua, p. 114. ‘ Bewoh- ner der Gebirgsgegenden nordiistlich vom See von Nicaragua.’ Froebel, Aus Amer., tom. i., p. 285. ‘In Nicaragua die Chontales im Hochlande im N. des Managua-Sees.’ Wapp/ius, Geog.u. Ntat., p. 246. ‘Deste lugar [Yztepe- que] comiencjan los Chontales.’ Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iv., lib. viii., cap. X. ‘ The Chondals or Chontals, the third great division mentioned by Oviedo, occupied the wide, mountainous region, still bearing the name of Chontales, situated to the northward of Lake Nicaragua, and midway be- tween the nations already named and the savage hordes bordering the Carib- bean Sea.’ Squier’s Nicaragua, (Ed. 1856,) vol. ii., p. 311. ‘ On the northern shores of the Lake of Nicaragua.’ Ludewig’s Ab. Lang, p. 48. ‘ The Lencas .... under the various names of Chontals, and perhaps Xicaques and Payas, occupying what is now the Department of San Miguel in San Salvador, of Comayagua, Choluteca, Tegucigalpa, and parts of Olancho and Yoro in Honduras, including the islands of Roatan, Guanaja, and their dependencies.’ Squier’s Cent. Amer., p. 252. The Pipiles ‘ n’y occupaient guere quelques cantons sur les cotes de I’oc^an Pacifique, dans la province d’ltzcuintlan et ne s’internaient que vers les frontieres de I’etat de San-Salvador, le long des rives du rio Paxa.’ Bras- seur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. ii., p. 120. ‘Welche den ganzen westlichen Theil des heutigen Staates von S. Sdvador siidlich vom Rio Lempa, das sogen. Reich Cozcotlan bewohuten.’ IF’.tpp-V’as, Geog. u. Slat., pp. 322, 326. ‘Are settled along the coasts of the Pacific, from the province of Escuintla to that of St. Salvador. .. .In a short time these Pipiles multi- plied immensely, and spread over the provinces of Zonzonate, St. Salvador, and St. Miguel.’ Juarros’ Hist. Guat., pp. 202, 224. Among ‘los Izalcos y costa de Guazacapan .. .San Salvador... .Honduras Nicaragua.’ Palacio, in Pacheco, Col. Doc. Ined., tom. vi., p. 7.