54 No. 3.-Bas-relief in Stucco 55 Oval Bas-relief in Stone 56 Bas-relief in Stucco 57 General Plan of Palenque 58 Casa No. 1. in Ruins 59 Casa No. 1. Restored 60 No. 1.-Bas-relief in Stucco 61 No. 2.-Bas-relief in Stucco 62 No. 3.-Bas-relief in Stucco 63 No. 4.-Bas-relief in Stucco 64 No. 1.-Tablet of Hieroglyphics 65 No. 2.-Tablet of Hieroglyphics 66 Tablet of Hieroglyphics on Inner Wall 67 Casa de Piedras, No. 2 68 Tablet on Back Wall of Altar, Casa No. 2 431 433 435 446 448 449 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 459 Between 460 & 461 72 Large Stone Tablet (Figures and Hieroglyphics). Between 464 & 465 73 No. 1.-Bas-relief on Side of Doorway leading to Altar 74 No. 2.-Bas-relief on Side of Doorway leading to Altar 75 Adoratorio of Altar. 76 Casa No. 4 77 Cenote 78 House of the Dwarf. 79 Plan of the Casa del Gobernador 522 INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL IN CENTRAL AMERICA, CHIAPAS, AND YUCATAN. CHAPTER I. DEPARTURE-THE VOYAGE-ARRIVAL AT BALIZE-MIXING OF COLOURS-GOVERNMENT HOUSE -COLONEL M'DONALD-ORIGIN OF BALIZE-NEGRO SCHOOLS-SCENE IN A COURT-ROOMLAW WITHOUT LAWYERS-THE BARRACKS-EXCURSION IN A PIT-PAN-A BEGINNING OF HONOURS-HONOURS ACCUMULATING-DEPARTURE FROM BALIZE-SWEETS OF OFFICE. ON Wednesday, the 3d of October, 1839, we embarked at New York on board the British brig Mary Ann, Hampton, master, for the Bay of Honduras. The brig was lying in the North River, with her anchor apeak and sails loose, and in a few minutes, in company with a large whaling-ship bound for the Pacific, we were under way. It was before seven o'clock in the morning: the streets and wharfs were still; the Battery was desolate, and, at the moment of leaving it on a voyage of uncertain duration, seemed more beautiful than I had ever known it before. Opposite the Quarantine Ground, a few friends who had accompanied us on board left; in an hour the pilot followed; at dusk the dark outline of the highlands of Neversink was barely visible, and the next morning we were fairly at sea. Hurried on by a strong north-easter, on the 9th we were within the region of the trade-winds, on the 10th within the tropics, and on the 11th, with the thermometer at 80°, but a refreshing breeze, we were moving gently between Cuba and St. Domingo, with both in full. sight. For the rest, after eighteen days of boisterous weather, drenched with tropical rains, on the 29th we were driven inside the Lighthouse reef, and, avoiding altogether the regular pilot-ground, at midnight reached St. George's Bay, about twenty miles from Balize. A large brig, loaded with mahogany, was lying at anchor, with a pilot on B |