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... River - Beautiful Scene - Crossing the River - The Luxury of Water - Primitive Costumes - How to make Tortillas - Costly Timber - Gualan - Oppressive Heat - Shock of an Earthquake - A Stroll through the Town - A troublesome Muleteer - A ...
... River - Beautiful Scene - Crossing the River - The Luxury of Water - Primitive Costumes - How to make Tortillas - Costly Timber - Gualan - Oppressive Heat - Shock of an Earthquake - A Stroll through the Town - A troublesome Muleteer - A ...
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... River - Woman's Kindness - Hacienda of San Antonio - Strange Customs - A Mountain of Aloes - The State of Honduras - Village of Copan - An ungracious Host - Wall of Copan - History of Copan - First View of the Ruins - Vain Speculations ...
... River - Woman's Kindness - Hacienda of San Antonio - Strange Customs - A Mountain of Aloes - The State of Honduras - Village of Copan - An ungracious Host - Wall of Copan - History of Copan - First View of the Ruins - Vain Speculations ...
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... River - Village of San Pedro - A Major - Domo - San Cristoval - Amatitan- A roving American - Entry into Guatimala - Letter from Mr. Catherwood - Christmas Eve -Arrival of Mr. Catherwood - Plaza de Toros - A Bullfight - The Theatre ...
... River - Village of San Pedro - A Major - Domo - San Cristoval - Amatitan- A roving American - Entry into Guatimala - Letter from Mr. Catherwood - Christmas Eve -Arrival of Mr. Catherwood - Plaza de Toros - A Bullfight - The Theatre ...
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... River Lempa - San Vicente - Volcano of San Vicente - Thermal Springs - Cojute- peque - Arrival at San Salvador - Prejudice against Foreigners - Contributions - Press- Gangs - Vice - President Vigil - Taking of San Miguel and San Vicente ...
... River Lempa - San Vicente - Volcano of San Vicente - Thermal Springs - Cojute- peque - Arrival at San Salvador - Prejudice against Foreigners - Contributions - Press- Gangs - Vice - President Vigil - Taking of San Miguel and San Vicente ...
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... River Chacamal - The Caribs - Ruins of Palenque . 394 CHAPTER XXXIII . Preparations for visiting the Ruins - A Turn - out - Departure - The Road - Rivers Micol and Otula - Arrival at the Ruins - The Palace - A Feu - de - joie - Quarters ...
... River Chacamal - The Caribs - Ruins of Palenque . 394 CHAPTER XXXIII . Preparations for visiting the Ruins - A Turn - out - Departure - The Road - Rivers Micol and Otula - Arrival at the Ruins - The Palace - A Feu - de - joie - Quarters ...
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Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan John L. Stephens Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1854 |
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan John L. Stephens Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1854 |
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, & Yucatan, Volym 1 John L. Stephens Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1949 |
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Sida 62 - The world's great mistress on the Egyptian plain," 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 62 - In Egypt the colossal skeletons of gigantic temples stand in the unwatered sands in all the nakedness of desolation; here an immense forest shrouded the ruins, hiding them from sight, heightening the impression and moral effect, and giving an intensity and almost wildness to the interest.
Sida 60 - 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.
Sida 473 - Here were the remains of a cultivated, polished, and peculiar people, who had passed through all the stages incident to the rise and fall of nations; reached their golden age, and perished, entirely unknown. The links which connected them with the human family were severed and lost, and these were the only memorials of their footsteps upon earth.
Sida 71 - 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 comer of which protruded from the earth.
Sida 71 - ... stone, I pushed the Indians away, and cleared out the loose earth with my hands. The beauty of the sculpture, the solemn stillness of the woods, disturbed only by the scrambling of monkeys and the chattering of parrots, the desolation of the city, and the mystery that hung over it, all created an interest higher, if possible, than I had ever felt among the ruins of the Old World.
Sida 80 - The front or river wall extends on a right line north and south six hundred and twenty-four feet, and it is from sixty to ninety feet in height. It is made of cut stones, from three to six feet in length, and a foot and a half in breadth. In many places the stones have been thrown down by bushes growing out of the crevices, and in one place...
Sida 523 - There is no rudeness or barbarity in the design or proportions ; on the contrary, the whole wears an air of architectural symmetry and grandeur ; and as the stranger ascends the steps and casts a bewildered eye along its open and desolate doors, it is hard to believe that he sees before him the work of a race in whose epitaph, as written by historians, they are called ignorant of art, and said to have perished in the rudeness of savage life.
Sida 62 - ... whom she belonged, how long on her voyage, or what caused her destruction; her lost people to be traced only by some fancied resemblance in the construction of the vessel, and, perhaps, never to be known at all. The place where we sat, was it a citadel from which an unknown people had sounded the trumpet of war? or a temple for the worship of the God of peace? or did the inhabitants worship the idols made with their own hands, and offer sacrifices on the stones before them? All was mystery, dark,...
Sida 474 - An Emperor tramples where an Emperor knelt ; Kingdoms are shrunk to provinces, and chains Clank over sceptred cities ; nations melt From power's high pinnacle, when they have felt The sunshine for a while, and downward go Like lauwine loosen'd from the mountain's belt; Oh for one hour of blind old Dandolo ! Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe.