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Title: The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Charnay, Désiré, 1828-1915
Subjects: Indians of Mexico Indians of Central America
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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uge fires to secure the moulds against the rain getting intothem, and the stowing them speedily away before they gotspoiled. Well, but we had every reason to be satisfied withour work ; the precious squeezes had been satisfactorily stored upin the galleries of the palace, when, on the night of January 26th,a night I shall never forget, a hideous smell of burning startledus out of our sleep to witness the flames which were consumingmy mouldings, the result, too, of three weeks hard labour, now-fast vanishing into smoke. To snatch the burning rolls andthrow them into the yard, where the Indians were ready to delugethem with water, was the work of a moment, but, alas ! to nopurpose ; the mischief was irretrievable, and we had to begin allover again. Whether done by accident or of malice prepense,it was idle to inquire ; we set to work again with renewed ardour,and after ten days of incessant labour we brought out copies finerthan the first, and these are now to be found in the Trocadero.
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PaLEN(.)UI;. Tl-MILES. 257 Our labours in the palace did not prevent our making explora-tions on the hill or mountain. We had spied to the north of thepalace, some 812 feet distant, a group of four houses, or smallpalaces, the ruins of which appeared sufficiently interesting to bereproduced, which I did, after having had the southern portioncleared of its luxuriant vegetation, when I found that the wholelength of the northern side was occupied by a dead wall, without

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