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  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.


  NEW YORK:
  E. F. Applegate, Printer, 111 Nassau Street.
  1850.




  PROFILE ILLUSTRATIONS
  FROM
  CENTRAL AMERICAN RUINS,
  OF
  ANCIENT RACES STILL EXISTING
  IN IXIMAYA.


[Illustration]

The above three figures, sketched from engravings in "Stevens's Central
America," will