The author must reiterate his obligations to his friend Mr. T. V. Keam. Without his aid much which is here recorded could not have been observed, and the debt which American ethnologists owe to his enlightened interest in this people, with whom he has lived for many years in close commercial relations, is very great. During these studies the author was accompanied by his lamented assistant, the late J. G. Owens, references to whose help are found on many of the following pages. To this fearless investigator, who lost his life in the cause of American archaeology at the ruins of Copan, the author owes much more than this brief reference would indicate.

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