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74 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 44
mistake of Stoll (2:27) in calling the Pupuluca (b) a Mixe dialect
is pointed out by Brinton (3:152). The latter author appears to
have made precisely the same mistake, however, in his paper on
the Xinca Indians, read before the American Philosophical Society,
October 17, 1884. On his map viii Sapper places a Lencan colony
possibly intended to correspond with Pupuluca (b)—slightly farther
to the northeast than the locality given by Stoll, who follows
Juarros. The last-named authority (l:i, 98) mentions Conguaco
as the pueblo of the people speaking this dialect, which is in the area
marked by him. The other dialects w^ere Guajiquero, Intibucat,
Opatoro, and Similiton, spoken in central Honduras in and about
the pueblos of the same names, respectively. Sapper (1 : 28)
mentions also as dialects Chilanga and Guatijigua, spoken in and
about villages so named, in northeastern Salvador. He fails,
however, to furnish vocabularies by which to determine relation-
ship, having obtained, it seems, only twenty words of the former
dialect. Nevertheless, as the pueblos are in the region where Lenca
prevailed, there can be but little doubt that they are local variations
of that language. No attempt has been made to mark the areas
of these dialects on the accompanying map. It is possible the
Chondal of Squier, mentioned below, should be considered a dialect,
for it appears from a statement by Brinton that Desire Pector termed
them ''Chontal-Lencas."
From the data obtainable it is impossible to define accurately the
boundaries of the chief Lencan area. The writer has been guided
in this respect chiefly by Squier (4:378 et seq.), omitting, of course,
his conclusion that the Jicaque and Paya belong to the same stock
as the Lenca. He was inclined to include geographically not only
the department of San Miguel in Salvador and those of Santa
Barbara and Comayagua in Honduras, but also Choluteca and parts
of Tegucigalpa, Olancho, and Yoro in the latter state (as they were
then defined); also the islands of Roatan and Guanaja. After
eliminatmg the territories of the Jicaque and Paya the writer has
outlined the Lencan territory to correspond as nearly as possible
with the most recent data. As mapped it appears to conform, at
least in a general way, with Sapper's determination, except that it
adds a small extension into Nicaragua to include Squier's Chondal,
w^ho, according to Brinton (3:149), are Lenca. It includes that
part of San Salvador east of the Lempa river, the modern departments
of Paraiso, Tegucigalpa, La Paz, Intibuca, Comayagua, and
parts of Santa Barbara and Gracias in Honduras, and extends into the
southern part of Segovia in Nicaragua.
Tlascalteca
This is a dialect of the Nahuatlan family, closely allied to the
Tlascalan, which from a statement of Scherzer (456) appears to
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