Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Volym 1Harper & Brothers, 1841 - 4 sidor |
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... reached St. George's Bay , about twenty miles from Balize . A large brig , loaded with mahogany , was lying at anchor , with a pilot on board , waiting for favourable weather to put to sea . The pilot had with him his son , a lad about ...
... reached St. George's Bay , about twenty miles from Balize . A large brig , loaded with mahogany , was lying at anchor , with a pilot on board , waiting for favourable weather to put to sea . The pilot had with him his son , a lad about ...
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... reached Balize . The streets were flooded , and in places there were large puddles , which it was difficult to cross . At the extreme end of the principal street we met the " lady , " Miss a mulatto woman , who could only give us board ...
... reached Balize . The streets were flooded , and in places there were large puddles , which it was difficult to cross . At the extreme end of the principal street we met the " lady , " Miss a mulatto woman , who could only give us board ...
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... reached the barracks , situated on the opposite side of a small bay . The soldiers are all black , and are part of an old Jamaica regiment , most of them having been enlisted at the English recruiting stations in Africa . Tall and ...
... reached the barracks , situated on the opposite side of a small bay . The soldiers are all black , and are part of an old Jamaica regiment , most of them having been enlisted at the English recruiting stations in Africa . Tall and ...
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... reaching the last , we were about to turn back ; but our guide urged us to go on and see " one old woman , " his grandmother . We followed and saw her . was very old ; no one knew her age , but it was consid- erably over a hundred ; and ...
... reaching the last , we were about to turn back ; but our guide urged us to go on and see " one old woman , " his grandmother . We followed and saw her . was very old ; no one knew her age , but it was consid- erably over a hundred ; and ...
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... reached a rising ground , open on the right , stretching away to the Golfo Dolce , and in front bounded by a gloomy forest . On the top was a rude fence of rough upright poles , enclo- sing the grave of some relative of Señor Ampudia ...
... reached a rising ground , open on the right , stretching away to the Golfo Dolce , and in front bounded by a gloomy forest . On the top was a rude fence of rough upright poles , enclo- sing the grave of some relative of Señor Ampudia ...
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Sida 154 - Where the car climb'd the Capitol; far and wide Temple and tower went down, nor left a site: Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, 'here was, or is,
Sida 119 - It is impossible to describe the interest with which I explored these ruins. The ground was entirely new; there were no guide-books or guides; the whole was a virgin soil. We could not see ten yards before us, and never knew what we should stumble upon next. At one time we stopped to cut away branches and vines which concealed the face of a monument, and then to dig around and bring to light a fragment, a sculptured corner of which protruded from the earth. I leaned over with breathless anxiety while...
Sida 133 - The other three sides consist of ranges of steps and pyramidal structures, rising from thirty to one hundred and forty feet in height on the slope. The whole line of survey is two thousand, eight hundred and sixty-six feet...
Sida 105 - But architecture, sculpture, and painting, all the arts which embellish life, had flourished in this overgrown forest: orators, warriors, and statesmen, beauty, ambition, and glory had lived and passed away, and none knew that such things had been, or could tell of their past existence. Books, the records of knowledge, are silent on this theme.
Sida 102 - ... sculptured, and came to the angle of a structure with steps on the sides, in form and appearance, so far as the trees would enable us to make it out, like the sides of a pyramid. Diverging from the base, and working our way through the thick woods, we came upon a square stone column, about fourteen feet high, and three feet on each side, sculptured in very bold relief, and on all four of the sides, from the base to the top. The front was the figure of a man curiously and richly dressed, and the...
Sida 95 - Jose, the guide, clearing a path before us with a machete. Soon we came to the bank of a river, and saw directly opposite a stone wall, perhaps a hundred feet high, with furze growing out of the top, running north and south along the river, in some places fallen, but in others entire.
Sida 350 - San Jose is, I believe, the only city that has grown up or even improved since the independence of Central America. Under the Spanish dominion Cartago was the royal capital; but, on the breaking out of the revolution, the...
Sida 99 - Spanish conquest. With regard to Copan, mention is made by the early Spanish historians of a place of that name, situated in the same region of country in which these ruins are found, which then existed as an inhabited city, and offered a formidable resistance to the Spanish arms, though there are circumstances which seem to indicate that the city referred to was inferior in strength and solidity of construction, and of more modern origin.
Sida 131 - In the year 1700, the Great Circus of Copan, still remained entire. This was a circular space, surrounded by stone pyramids about six yards high, and very well constructed ; at the bases of these pyramids were figures, both male and female, of very excellent sculpture, which then retained the colours they had been enamelled with; and, what was not less remarkable, the whole of them were habited in the Castilian costume. In the middle of this area, elevated above a flight of steps, was the place of...
Sida 102 - The sight of this unexpected monument put at rest at once and for ever, in our minds, all uncertainty in regard to the character of American antiquities, and gave us the assurance that the objects we were in search of were interesting, not only as the remains of an unknown people, but as works of art, proving, like newly discovered historical records, that the people who once occupied the continent of America were not savages.