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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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ars, Time, inall probability, had not spared her, more than he had me. Ticul, whither we are bound, is reached in the evening, where,thanks to the kind offices of our friend Don Antonio Fajardo,a house has been secured for our accommodation. Ticul is built on the lower slopes of the Sierra, which runsin a line from north-west to south-east of the peninsula. Itis a small place, with a few good houses and shops; every-thing has a look of newness, as if Ijuilt but yesterday, savethe church and the monastery falling into decay, in which lived Kabah and Uxmal. 2>7S the delightful padrecito Cirillo, whose pleasant gossip has beenso charmingly recorded in Stephens Journal. Almost the onlyinhabitable apartment is now occupied by Cirillos brother, adear old fellow, whose cheery, smiling face it is a pleasure to see.We make the Tienda, where we have our meals, our receiving-room ; our visitors are the schoolmaster, some Governmentemployds, the Mayor, and Dr. Cuevas, an eminent archaeologist,
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YUCATEC AND TEOTIHUACAN VASES. who presented me with a stick of zapote, cut out of a lintelfound at Kabah. Our evenings pass pleasantly enough, inagreeable conversation regarding the ruins found in thisdistrict. In this way we learn that the hacienda of S. Francisco,some little distance from Sacalun, is an ancient Indian centrewith two unexplored mounds, in one of which a skeleton andvases in good preservation were found some years since. Iwas seized with the desire to explore these eminences, but my 176 The Ancient Cities of the New World. repeated attempts proved bootless, and I was obliged to giveup the enterprise. But kind friends here did not wish me to go away empty-handed, so they sent me some vases which had been unearthedin these mounds, just as I was sitting down in the evening torecord my failure. Two are shown in our cut, on each side ofthe central one from Teotihuacan. The resemblance between the ceramic art of Yucatan and thatof the table-land, is seen at a glance. Their

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