91: London, 1759.
[93-3] Cogolludo, _Hist.

de Yucathan_, lib.iv.cap.

iii.
[93-4] Alexander von Humboldt has asserted that the Quichuas had other and very circumstantial terms to express the cardinal points drawn from the positions of the son (_Ansichten der Natur_, ii.p.

368).

But the distinguished naturalist overlooked the literal meaning of the phrases he quotes for north and south, _intip chaututa chayananpata_ and _intip chaupunchau chayananpata_, literally, the sun arriving toward the midnight, the sun arriving toward the midday.