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By the shore is a rock of grotesque form, and opposite, about three miles from Roscoff, is the pretty island of Batz, which derives its name—Breton "batz," a stick—from the rod used by St. Pol de Léon to work his miracle People were busily employed in boats collecting the goëmon, which they pile in heaps along the shore.— Brittany ; Its Byways
He and Dr Seler refer to the chouen in a legend of the Popol Vuh, which undoubtedly stands in close relation to batz or "monkey," there spoken of as hunbatz_.— Day Symbols of the Maya Year Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-1895, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 199-266.
Cay batz, 40, 47, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54.— The Annals of the Cakchiquels
"Why, the fact is," said Rollo, "I gave him a batz."— Rollo on the Rhine
"Yes," said Rollo, "or something like a batz, that I had in my pocket."— Rollo on the Rhine

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