Brown” (Boston, 1880); “A Nameless Nobleman”
(1881); “The Desmond Hundred” (1882); “Standish
of Standish” (1889); “Dr. Le Baron and his
Daughter” (1891); and “David Alden's Daughter,
and other Stories” (1892).
AVENDASO, Andres (ah-vain-dahn-yo), Span-
ish missionary, b. in Old Castile about 1050; d. in
Merida, Yucatan, about 1730. He entered the
order of St. Francis in the province of Burgos,
and was sent to the missions of Yucatan, where in
1705 he was appointed provincial. In his long
residence among the Mayas he seems to have been
an acute observer, and left several interesting
manuscripts : " Diccionario de la longua de Yu-
catan," " l)iccionario abreviadode losadverbios de
tiempo y lugar de la lengua de Yucatan," " Diccio-
nario de nombres de personas, idolos, danzas y
otras antigiiedades de los Indios de Yucatan,"
" Diccionario boUinico y medico de Yucatan," and
" Explicacion de varios vaticinios de los antiguos
Indios de Yucatan." According to Juan Jose
Eguiara, in his "Biblioteca llexicana," these
existed in 1760 in the provincial convent of
Merida, but so far they have not been discovered
in the original, although extracts have appeared
in the works of Orozeo y Berra and Icazbalceta
copied from contemporaries of AvendaHo.
AVERY, Elroy McKendree, author, b. in Erie,
Mich., 14 July, 1844. He served in the army
through the civil war, and was graduated from
Michigan university in 1871, acting during his
college course as correspondent of the Detroit
“Tribune.” Later he became principal of the Cleveland
normal school, and for some years was connected
with the Brush electric light company of that
city. He has published “Elements of Natural
Philosophy” (New York, 1878), and numerous other
successful school-books, and contributed biographical
and historical articles to the magazines. Mr.
Avery is engaged in the preparation of a “Popular
History of the United States.”
AYALA, Gabriel (i-a'h-lah), Mexican historian, lived in the 16th century. He belonged to the nobility of Texcoco, and in his youth, after the conquest by the Spaniards, was converted to Christianity and appointed notary of the city corporation. He wrote fluently in Nahuatl, the learned language of the valley of Anahuac, in which he composed "Apuntes historicos de la Nacion Mexicana desde 1243 hasta 1563 en lengua Nahuatl," the original MS. of which was in the possession of Lorenzo Boturini, and confiscated with the rest of his collection, but extracted in his "Ensayo de una Nueva Historia General, etc." (Madrid, 1746).
