Carlos de Tapia Zenteno, Noticia de la lengua huasteca (Mexico, 1767)

The only printed grammar, catechism and dictionary of Huastec to come out of colonial Mexico, and a book that dates its own delay: written more than forty years before it appeared, licensed more than twenty, held back by what printing cost until an archbishop paid. It describes four sibilants by where the tongue goes, records a dialect split around Tampico, and ends in confession questions written for native officials about beating people for tribute.