Incidents Of Travel In Central America, Chiapas, And Yucatan ... Illustrated By Numerous Engravings, Volym 1John Murray, 1841 |
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... Stone Quarries . - More Appli- cants for Medicine . " Idols " and Altars . - Buried Image . - Material of the Statues . - Idols originally painted . - Circular Altar . - Antiquity of Copan . 130 CHAPTER VIII . Separation . - An ...
... Stone Quarries . - More Appli- cants for Medicine . " Idols " and Altars . - Buried Image . - Material of the Statues . - Idols originally painted . - Circular Altar . - Antiquity of Copan . 130 CHAPTER VIII . Separation . - An ...
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... Lockage . - Estimate of Cost . - Former Efforts to construct the Canal . - Its Advantages . - Central American Hospitality . - Tierra Caliente.- Horrors of Civil War . · 396 ENGRAVINGS OF VOLUME I. Map . Page Stone Statue , viii CONTENTS .
... Lockage . - Estimate of Cost . - Former Efforts to construct the Canal . - Its Advantages . - Central American Hospitality . - Tierra Caliente.- Horrors of Civil War . · 396 ENGRAVINGS OF VOLUME I. Map . Page Stone Statue , viii CONTENTS .
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... Stone Statue , front View ... Frontispiece . Wall of Copan 96 Plan of Copan .. Death's Head Portrait 133 135 136 Stone Idol ... Portrait Stone Idol ...... Tablet of Hieroglyphics 138 139 140 141 No. 1 , Sides of Altar ......... . 142 No ...
... Stone Statue , front View ... Frontispiece . Wall of Copan 96 Plan of Copan .. Death's Head Portrait 133 135 136 Stone Idol ... Portrait Stone Idol ...... Tablet of Hieroglyphics 138 139 140 141 No. 1 , Sides of Altar ......... . 142 No ...
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... stone or fence , or hardly any elevation , to distinguish it from the soil around . It was a gloomy burial - place for a countryman , and I felt an involun- tary depression of spirit . A fatality had hung over our diplomatic appointment ...
... stone or fence , or hardly any elevation , to distinguish it from the soil around . It was a gloomy burial - place for a countryman , and I felt an involun- tary depression of spirit . A fatality had hung over our diplomatic appointment ...
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... stone to mark his grave . I returned to the house , directed a fence to be built around the grave of Mr. Shannon , and my friend the padre promised to plant at its head a cocoa- nut - tree . At daylight the muleteers commenced loading ...
... stone to mark his grave . I returned to the house , directed a fence to be built around the grave of Mr. Shannon , and my friend the padre promised to plant at its head a cocoa- nut - tree . At daylight the muleteers commenced loading ...
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Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Volym 1 John L. Stephens Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1841 |
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Volym 1 John L. Stephens Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1841 |
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