A bookseller with a taste for antiquities travelled through Yucatán in the early 1840s, and here he records the towns, haciendas and customs of the peninsula along with his visits to the great Maya ruins of Chichén Itzá, Kabah, Zayi and Uxmal. He speculates freely on who raised such monuments, comparing their builders with the pyramid-makers of Egypt.
An early American travel account of the Maya world, from the same years as Stephens’s more famous Incidents of Travel in Yucatan. Download the free EPUB.