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Title: The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Charnay, Désiré, 1828-1915
Subjects: Indians of Mexico Indians of Central America
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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I H^c JJJ.JUl BAS-RELIEFS AT KABAH (FROM STEPHENS). J Mexican manuscripts. In this relief the conqueror spares thelife of the vanquished, bidding him depart in peace. It isobvious, nay, we affirm, that this is a representation of a battlebetween Yucatecs and Mexicans dating somewhere between 1460 390 The Ancient Cities of the New World. and 1470 ;* since we know that Mayapan was the only city whichimplored the aid of the Aztecs, and that after its destructionthe inhabitants obtained permission to establish themselves inthe province of Maxcanu, east of Merida, where their descendantsare found to this very day. These repetitions were necessary toconvince a class of archaeologists who claim for these monumentsa hoary antiquity. * Compare tlie striking resemblance between the Aztec warrior in our Temala-catl drawing, chap. iii. p. 42, and tlie kneeling figure.
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HACIENDA OF UXMAL. CHAPTER XX. UXMAL. From Kabah to Santa Helena—A Maya Village—Uxmal—Hacienda—The Gover-nors Palace—Cisterns and Reservoirs—The Nunnery and the Dwarfs House—Legend—General View— Cerro de los Sacrificios —Don Peons Charter—Stephens Plan and Measurements—Friederichsthal—Conclusion—Our Return. From Kabah to Santa Helena we travel at last on a good road,wide enough to secure us against collisions, smooth enough andshady enough to make locomotion highly agreeable ; a sensationwhich is increased rather than diminished on reaching thebeautiful native village of Santa Helena, extending over a wideexpanse divided in square blocks like a modern town. Each 392 The Ancient Cities of the New World. dwelling is planted ^vith riruc/os, with orange-trees, a profusionof flowers, and encompassed by a fencing wall. Near the hutsare aerial gardens, made by means of poles fixed in the groundsupporting twined branches covered over with a few inches ofearth, wher

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