Identifier: republicofmexico00garc (find matches)
Title: The Republic of Mexico in 1876. A political and ethnographical division of the population, character, habits, costumes and vocations of its inhabitants
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: García Cubas, Antonio, 1832-1912 Henderson, George F
Subjects: Indians of Mexico Mexico Mexico -- Social life and customs
Publisher: Mexico : "La Enseñanza" Printing Office
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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domineering over his enemys country,which he carried into effect by taking possession of variousplaces and blocking up the population of Zachila. The kingof the Zapotecos retired with his court to a small mountaincalled the teat of Maria Sanchez. In this state both kingswere found, when they were surprised by the Spanish invasion. The Zapotecos as well as the Mixtecos were intelligentand industrious : they cultivated maize, fruit and cocoa, whichbesides game, served as their nutriment. The ruins which aremet with in the neighbourhood of Teotitlan del Valle, provethe grandeur of these nations. Mitla or Liobaa, (in the Zapo-teco language, place of rest) was the sanctuary of their Gods,the palace of the high priest and the crypt of the kings, thebuilding being divided into various compartments. It wasthere where the Zapotecos dissented from their culture by theirbarbarous and inhuman sacrifices, and where they display-ed the greatest magnificence in the interment of their kings. J Lam. 6
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V DCSRM V Cf lOI These palaces have always caused the admiration of travel-lers by the beautiful style of their decoration and construc-tion, six monolith columns without either base or capitlbeing especially remarkable, so much so that Baron de Hum-boldt believed them to be the only ones in the New World.Sahagun says that among the ruins of the city of Tula, theremight be seen at one time some columns in the figure of asake that had the head for the base and the tail for the ca-pital. In my last expedition to this town, guided by the mostlively desire of investigating objects so useful towards acqui-ring a knowledge of historical facts, I discovered three blocksof a column, artistically sculptured, in which the correctnessof style and good taste of the design were admirable: theseblocks were made to be adjusted to each other in such a waythat they would give the greatest solidity to the column whenraised. These three masses measure: the first o™ 63, the se-cond o™ 56 and the thir

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