The native races of the Pacific states of North America Volume 4 - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...' Humboldt, Vues, tom. ii., pp. 278-9. Yopaa, Lyoba, or Yobaa, 'terre des tombes;' Mietlan, 'sejour des Morts.' Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. i., pp. 304-5, tom. iii., p. 9. Liobaa, 'place of rest.' Soc.Mex. Geog., Boletin, tom. vii., p. 170. 31 ' Uno, llaraado Mictlan, que quiere decir infierno 6 lugar de muertos, & do hubo en tiempos pasados, (segun hallaron las muestras) edificios mas notables y de ver que en otra parte de la Nueva Espaiia. Hubo un templo del demoiiio y aposentos de sus ministros, maravillosa cosa a la vista, en especial una sala como de artesones, y la obra era labrada de piedra de inuchos lazos y labores.' Mendieta, Hist. Eeles., pp. 395-6; Burgoa, Deserip. Geog., tom. ii., fol. 259, etc. ruins, and the natives go through forms of worship in honor of a foreign deity in a modern church over the tombs of their ancestors' kings and priests, whose faith they were long since forced to abandon.33 Most of the early Spanish chroniclers speak of Mitla and of the traditions connected with the place, but what may be called the modern exploration of the structures, as relics of antiquity, dates from the year 1802, when Don Luis Martin and Col. de la Laguna from Mexico visited and sketched the ruins. It was from Martin and from his drawings in the hands of the Marquis of Branciforte, that Humboldt obtained his information. In August 1806, Dupaix and Castaiieda reached Mitla in their second exploring tour. In 1830, the German traveler Miihlenpfordt, during a residence in the country, made plans and drawings of the remains, copies of which were retained by Juan B. Carriedo and afterwards published in a Mexican periodical. Drawings were also made by one Sawkins in 1837, and published by Mr Brantz Mayer in a work on Zapotec antiquiti...