Memoir of an eventful expedition in Central America : resulting in the discovery of the idolatrous city of Iximaya, in an unexplored region, and the possession of two remarkable Aztec children, descendants and specimens of the sacerdotal caste (now nearly extinct) of the ancient Aztec founders of the ruined temples of that country

Memoir of an eventful expedition in Central America : resulting in the discovery of the idolatrous city of Iximaya, in an unexplored region, and the possession of two remarkable Aztec children, descendants and specimens of the sacerdotal caste (now nearly extinct) of the ancient Aztec founders of the ruined temples of that country / described by John L. Stevens, Esq., and other travellers ; translated from the Spanish of Pedro Velasquez, of San Salvador.

Author/creator	Velasquez, Pedro
Other author/creator	Stephens, John L., 1805-1852. Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	New York : E.F. Applegate, printer, 1850.
Description	35 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Supplemental Content	Gale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Subject(s)	Indians of Central America. Aztecs. Central America--Antiquities. Central America--Description and travel.

Variant title	Memoir of a recent eventful expedition in Central America
Series	Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926 Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED
Local note	Travel.
Local note	2012AH91100.
Local note	Travel.
Local note	2012AH91100.
General note	"Profile illustrations from Central American ruins, of ancient races still existing in Iximaya": p. [3]-[4] -- "Memoir of a recent eventful expedition in Central America" [purporting to be an abridgment with translated extracts of the journal kept by Velasquez, who supposedly accompanied Huertis and Hammond, the promoters of the expedition]: p. [5]-35.
General note	"Iximaya" is claimed to be the traditional Indian city referred to by John L. Stephens' "Incidents and travel in Central America ...", New York, 1841, v. 2, p. 195-197.
General note	Title within ornamental border.
General note	Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
General note	Sabin no. 98812.

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