A comparative vocabulary list of approximately 260 entries (including 26 numbers for counting 1 to 70) compiled by C. Hermann Berendt, with main entries in Spanish and equivalents, when available (spaces are frequently left blank), in Lenca, Jicaque (Xicaque), Matagalpa (labeled Chontal), Ulva, Tawahka (Twaka), Miskito (Moskito), and Garifuna (labeled Caribe). The vocabularies are drawn from various sources. The following researchers are specified in headings, and Berendt's separate transcriptions of their vocabularies are found elsewhere in Ms. Coll. 700: Julius Fröbel, Pablo Lévy, and Viktor Noguero for Ulva spoken in Nicaragua (see, respectively, Item 146, Item 145, and Item 147); Haly for Tawahka language or dialect of Nicaragua (see Item 133); and A.M. Fellechner et al. for Miskito, spoken in Nicaragua and Honduras (see Item 131). Alexander Henderson is also cited for Miskito (evidently from his Grammar of the Moskito language, Berendt's copy of which is in the Rare Book Collection, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania); as well as for the vocabulary under the heading Caribe (see Berendt's transcription of the Garifuna vocabulary collected by Henderson in what is now Belize, Ms. Coll. 700 Item 135). The Jicaque vocabulary corresponds to that collected by Amory Edwards in Honduras and published by E.G. Squier (for Berendt's transcription, see Ms. Coll. 700 Item 136). The vocabulary listed under Chontal appears to be the Matagalpa vocabulary collected by Viktor Noguero in the departments of Matagalpa and Segovia, Nicaragua, a language at that time referred to with the more generic terms Popoluca or Chontal (for Berendt's transcription, see Ms. Coll. 700 Item 124). The Lenca vocabularies, appearing under headings for the Honduran villages Guajiquiro (Guajiquero), Opatoro, Intibucá (Intibucat) and Similaton, correspond to those transcribed by Berendt from a work by E.G. Squier (see Ms. Coll. 700 Item 137). Also included under Ulva are a handful of entries under the place-name sub-headings Bulbul and Rama. The following 2 related German-language articles are tipped in: a report under the title, "Zur Ethnologie von Nicaragua," based on a communication by letter from Berendt published in the September 1874 issue of Correspondenz-Blatt der deutschen Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte (p. 70-72; a complete copy, f. 2v, and a 2nd copy with a quarter page of text wanting, f. 5r); and a follow-up report, also based on a communication from Berendt, published under the same title, in the June 1875 issue of the same journal (p. 46-47; f. 5r). A draft version of the latter article, in Berendt's hand, is also tipped in (bifolium, f. 4r), as well as the following items in Spanish, in Berendt's hand: 1) a sheet headed Indios de Solentenami (f. 3v), which appears to be instructions for a researcher in what questions to ask and vocabulary to collect concerning the Indians of the islands of Solentenami and Ometepe, and of San Jorge, Nicaragua (f. 3v); 2) a note listing citations from works by E.G. Squier (f. 3v); 3) a note citing works by Fellechner and Alexander Henderson, as well as George Henderson, Thomas Young, and Alexander Cotheal, all apparently in relation to Miskito, and also mentioning Caribe (f. 3v); and 4) a note with the heading Lenca / Xicaque, including citations from Squier (f. 4r). Also included are 4 leaves of tracing paper with drawings (laid in).
