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Title: Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatán
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Stephens, John Lloyd, 1805-1852 Harper & Brothers, publisher
Subjects: Mayas
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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aragua.—Survey for the Canal.—Lake of Nicaragua.—Plan ofthe Canal.—Lockage.—Estimate of Cost.—Former Efforts to construct thCanal.—Its Advantages.—Central American Hospitality.—Tierra Caliente.—Horrors of Civil War . . • 396 ENGRAVINGS OF VOLUME I. Map. Tage Stone Statue, front View Frontispiece. Wall of Copan 96 Plan of Copan - 133 Deaths Head 135 Portrait 136 Stone Idol 138 Portrait 139 Stone Idol HO Tablet of Hieroglyphics 141 No. 1, Sides of Altar 142 No. 2, Sides of Altar 142 Gigantic Head 143 No. 1, Stone Idol, front View 149 No. 2, Stone Idol, back View 150 Idol half buried 151 No. l,Idol 152 No. 2, Idol 152 No. 1, Idol 153 No. 2, Idol 153 Idol and Altar 154 Fallen Idol 155 No. 1, Idol, front View 156 No. 2, Idol, back View 156 No. 3, Idol, side View 156 Fallen Idol 157 Circular Altar 157 No. 1, Stone Idol, front View 158 No. 2, Stone Idol, back View 158 No. 3, Stone Idol, side View 158 Great Square of Antigua Guatimala 266 Profile of Nicaragua Canal ^.. V
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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL CENTRAL AMERICA, CHIAPAS, AND YUCATAN. CHAPTER I. Departure.—The Voyage.—Arrival at Balize.—Mixing of Colours.—GovernmentHouse.—Colonel MDonald — Origin of Balize.—Negro Schools.—Scene in aCourt-room.—Law without Lawyers.—The Barracks.—Excursion in a Pit-pan.—A Beginning of Honours.—Honours accumulating.—Departure fromBalize.—Sweets of Office. Being intrusted by the President with a SpecialConfidential Mission to Central America, on Wednes-day, the third of October, 1839, I embarked on boardthe British brig Mary Ann, Hampton, master, for theBay of Honduras. The brig was lying in the NorthRiver, with her anchor apeak and sails loose, and ina few minutes, in company with a large whaling-shipbound for the Pacific, we were under way. It wasbefore seven oclock in the morning: the streets andwharves were still; the Battery was desolate ; and, atthe moment of leaving it on a voyage of uncertain du-ration, seemed more beautiful than I had ever

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