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Title: Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Stephens, John L, 1805-1852
Subjects: Indians of Central America Indians of Mexico Mayas
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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Perseverance.—Arrival of Luggage on the Backs of Indians.—First Night at Uxmal. The interest of our day at Ma japan came near being marred by an unlucky accident. Just as we were leaving the ruins a messenger came to inform us that one of our pistols had shot an Indian.These pistols had never shown any particular antipathy to Indians, and had never shot one before ; but,hurrying back to the hacienda, we found the poor fellow with two of his fingers nearly shot off*. The ball had passed through his shirt, making two holes in it, fortunately without hitting his body. The Indians said that the pistol had gone off of itself while they were only looking at it. We felt sure that this was not exactly the case, knowing that pistols are not free agents, and laid the blame upon them ; but it was a great satisfaction that the accident was no worse, and also that Doctor Cabot was at hand to dress the wound. The Indian seemed to think less of it than we did. It was late when we left the hacienda. Our road
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2 < < Z< z PC HACIENDA OF XCANCHAKAN. 143 was a mere bridle-path through a wilderness. At some distance we crossed a broken range of stones,rising on each side to a wall, which the major domo said was the line of wall that encompassed the ancient city. It was nearly dark when we reached the stately hacienda of Xcanchakan, one of the three finest in Yucatan, and containing nearly seven hundred souls.The plate opposite represents the front of this hacienda. The house is perhaps one of the best in the country, and being within one days ride of the capital, and accessible by calesa, it is a favourite residence of its venerable proprietor. The whole condition of the hacienda showed that it was often subject to the masters eye, and the character of that master may be judged of from the fact that his major domo, the same who was attendant upon us, had been with him twenty-six years. I have given the reader some idea of a hacienda in Yucatan, with its cattle-yard, its great tanks otwate

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