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Title: The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Charnay, Désiré, 1828-1915
Subjects: Indians of Mexico Indians of Central America
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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eturn ask him to lend me his largecanoe, which these men I send with you will bring. The strangers rowed away, and I began to prepare for thenext days expedition, in which Lucian and six men wouldaccompany me, leaving the rest behind to take care of ourheavy luggage under the superintendence of Julian. But in themorning early I had a severe attack of malaria, which threatenedat one time to delay our journey. A few hours rest, however,and a good dose of quinine, restored me sufficiently to allow ofmy setting out for the long-sought, long wished-for ruins, whichwe reached in three hours, landing near an enormous pile ofstones—a kind of votive pillar—rising on the left bank of theriver, which has withstood the buffeting of the waters for severalcenturies. This stone mound was described to me at Tenosiqu^,as having formed part of an old bridge which spanned the riverat this point. But what we know of the natives method ofbuilding makes this supposition impossible, for the river is too
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LACANDON CHIEF AND LACAiNDON TYPEii. 2 F LoRiLLARD Town. 435 broad, and on the other hand, had a bridge formerly stood here,remains would be found either on the opposite side or in thebed of the river. There is very little doubt that for all thepurposes of daily life, the inhabitants of this city used canoas just as they do now.

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