Indian Terms in Vázquez' Compendio

Index. Six years later the Smithsonian Institution published Clark's transcription of Vazquez' manuscript, with Spanish versions of the Introduction and Index. This transcription is listed as Volume 108 (whole volume) in the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections (1948), Washington, D. C. Vazquez' work contains a vast number of loan-words from the native languages of the West Indies, the Gulf States, Latin America, Mexico, and islands of the South Pacific. From this bewildering array of SpanishIndian terms I have selected some that appear to be especially worthy of comment. I have made no significant changes in Vizquez' obsolete and often erratic orthography. The numbers immediately following the words that I shall discuss indicate paragraphs in Clark's transcription. These numbers correspond to those in the English translation.