Paso Yalchilan—Another Mule Lost—An Anxious Night—A Wild Boar—Encampment—Upper Usumacinta—No Canoes—A Difficulty—Deliverance—Surprise—A Mysterious Traveller—A Canoe—Fever—Down Stream—A Votive Pillar—Ruins—I Meet with a Stranger—General View of Lorillard—A Reminiscence—Stephens’ “Phantom City”—Extent of the Ruins Unknown—Temple—Idol—Fortress—Our Dwelling Palace—Great Pyramid—Second Temple—Stone Lintels and Two Kinds of Inscriptions—Our Return—Lacandones.
Departure from Peten—The River—The Sierra—Sacluc or Libertad—Cortez’ Route—Marzillo’s Story—Flores—Ancient Tayasal—Conquest of Peten—Various Expeditions—The Town Captured—The Inhabitants Disappear—Monuments Described—Tikal—Early Explorers—Temples—Bas-reliefs on Wood—Retrospection—Bifurcation of the Toltec Column at Tikal—Tikal—Toltecs in Guatemala—Coban—Demolition of Copan—Quetzalcoatl—Transformation of Stone Altar Bas-reliefs into Monolith Idols—End of an Art Epoch—Map of Toltec Migrations.
Return to Tenosiqué—S. Domingo del Palenque Revisited—Departure for S. Cristobal—First Halt—No Tamenes—Setting out alone for Nopa—Bad Roads—No Food—Monkeys—Three Days Waiting at S. Pedro—The _Cabildo_—Hostile Attitude of the Natives—The Porters Arrive—They make off in the Night—From S. Pedro to Tumbala—Two Nights in the Forest—Tumbala—The Cura—Jajalun—Chilon—Citala—A Dominican Friar—Cankuk—Tenejapa—S. Cristobal—Valley of Chiapas—Tuxtla—Santa Lucia—_Marimba_—Tehuantepec—Totolapa—Oaxaca—Santa Maria del Tule—Ruins of Mitla.
A VIEW OF VERA CRUZ AND THE FORT OF SAN JUAN OF ULLOA 3
MEXICAN TORTILLERA AND STRAW MAT SELLERS 51
THE STONE OF THE SUN, OR OF TIZOC, MEXICO MUSEUM 61
THE TEMALACATL, OR GLADIATORIAL STONE (FROM RAMIREZ MS.) 63
QUETZALCOATL, UNDER HIS BEST-KNOWN ATTRIBUTES 87
GROUND PLAN OF FIRST TOLTEC HOUSE UNEARTHED AT TULA (FROM LEMAIRE) 105
PLAN OF THE HILL AT TULA (ANCIENT PALPAN) 106
GROUND PLAN OF TOLTEC PALACE UNEARTHED AT TULA (LEMAIRE) 107
FEMALE DANCERS AND TECUHTLIS (FROM RAMIREZ MS. AND FATHER DURAN) 114
YOUNG TOLTEC GIRL (FROM MODERN INDIAN TYPES AND FATHER DURAN’S “HIST. DE LAS INDIAS”) 117
INDIAN KING (DRAWN FROM CLAVIGERO, RAMIREZ MS. AND FATHER DURAN) 123
TERRA-COTTA MASKS AND HEADS FOUND AT TEOTIHUACAN 133
MILE-STONE, OR VOTIVE COLUMN, TEOTIHUACAN 140