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Title: Travels amongst American Indians : their ancient earthworks and temples : including a journey in Guatemala, Mexico and Yucatan, and a visit to the ruins of Patinamit, Utatlan, Palenque and Uxmal
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Brine, Lindesay, 1834-1906
Subjects: Indians -- Antiquities Guatemala -- Antiquities Mexico -- Antiquities North America -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston & Company
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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the life at San Domingo had anattraction for him which he did not wish to resist, 296 SAN DOMINGO DEL PALENQUE. and he decided to make this place his home, andmarried a native who possessed, in her own right,some land in the neighbourhood.* Dr. Coller was a man of varied and extensiveinformation and an excellent linguist. He haddevoted much time, not only to the investigationof the Indian antiquities, but also to the study ofthe geology and botany of the district, and I wasmuch pleased when he proposed to accompany me toPalenque. It was of the greatest advantage thusto have the benefit of his accurate knowledge of thepositions of the mounds and temples. *Dr. Collers hut at San Domingo del Palenque was not aCastle of Lirias, but probably the lines quoted by Gil Bias wereoften in his mind. Indeed there are many others who, if they sawthat hamlet as I saw it in the month of March, would concur withhim in saying : Inveni portum. Spes et Fortuna valete. Sat me lusistis: ludite nunc alios.
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CHAPTER XV. Palenque.—The Forest.—The Palace or Monastery.—Night atPalenque.—Brilliancy of the light of the fireflies.—PyramidalMounds and Temples.—Tablet of the Cross.—Hieroglyphs.—An Indian Statue.—Antiquity of the Buildings.—The Tower.—Stucco Ornamentation.—Action of the tropical climate upon theRuins.— Note upon the decipherment of the hieroglyphic characters. It was a bright tropical morning when we mountedour horses and followed the narrow path leading toPalenque. After riding for a league through woods,savannahs, and cornfields, we reached and crossedthe river Michol. As we approached the ruins, the forest was sothick that we were not able to see anything beyondthe track which had been cleared for us by our men.At a distance of al^out three Spanish leagues fromSan Domingo, we came to the borders of a smallrunning stream. Dr. Coller stopped and said thatat this point we should dismount, as we had arrivedat our destination. We then went up a steep slope,

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