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Ruined church at Pisté, Yucatan, 1889. The town had been abandoned in 1847 during the Caste War, and in 1889 was starting to be repopulated.

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Title: Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Maudslay, Alfred Percival, 1850-1931 Goodman, J. T Godman, Frederick Du Cane, 1834-1919 Salvin, Osbert, 1835-1898 Greve, W., lithographer Griggs, William, 1832-1911 Hunter, Ada Purkiss, W., lithographer Shawe, W Sweet, H. N. (Henry N.)
Subjects: Mayas Indians of Mexico Indians of Central America Mayas Indians of Mexico Indians of Central America Inscriptions, Mayan Maya calendar
Publisher: London : Published for the editors by R.H. Porter ... and Dulau & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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in which she fancied were many hollows and deeps ; and in answer to thequestions which the Indian girl put to them, they replied to her whether it should bea good or bad year, and whether the devil was angry with any of the Lords who hadcast in the Indian girls, but these Lords already knew that if a girl did not beg to betaken out at midday it was because the devil was angry with them, and she never cameout again. Then.seeing that she did not come out, all the followers of that Lord andthe Lord himself threw great stones into the water and with loud cries fled from theplace. Plate I. Map of Yucatan and the Country sooth of it. This Map is compiled from the one in Petermanns Mittheilungen, 1879, by Dr. C. H. Berendt, fromDr. Carl Sappers map in the same journal for 1894, and from my own observations. The country south of Peto, Chichen Itza, and Valladolid is occupied by independentIndian tribes hostile to Mexico. biol. centr.-amer., Archscol., Vol. III., July 1895. c 10 CHICHEN ITZA.
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Kuined Chcech at Pisi.fi. General Description of the Site op the Ruins. The plan on Plate II. includes roughly a thousand yards square ground, in which areincluded all the principal buildings still standing, but it by no means shows the extentof ground covered by the ancient city, for small raised foundations, stone-faced terraces,heaps of squared stones, and fragments of columns can be found for a mile or more inevery direction. Amongst the ruins of the ancient city to the S.E. of the Casa de Monjas (Plate II.,No. 1) stand the church and buildings of a large cattle hacienda, which, althoughabandoned since 1847 and much overgrown, are still in fairly good condition. The Indian ruins had been freely used as quarries when the buildings of Piste andthe hacienda were being raised, and many well-squared blocks of stone bearing frag-ments of hieroglyphics and other sculpture can be found embedded in the church-walls. CHICHEN ITZA. 11 Within the site of the ancient city are several patches o

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