 | Ephraim George Squier - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 846
...and Manches. Its forests hide numberless monuments of ancient art and superstition, and within their depths, far off on some unknown tributary of the Usumasinta, the popular tradition of Guatemala and Chiapa places that great aboriginal city, with its white temples shining like silver in the sun, which... | |
 | Arthur Morelet - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 450
...know that it is traversed by nameless ranges of mountains, among which the great river TJsuma&inta gathers its waters from a thousand tributaries, before...places that great aboriginal city, with its white walls shining like silver in the sun, which the cura of Quiche affirmed to Mr. Stephens he had seen,... | |
 | Arthur Morelet - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 450
...only know that it is traversed by nameless ranges of mountains, among which the great river Usumasinta gathers its waters from a thousand tributaries, before...places that great aboriginal city, with its white walls shining like silver in the sun, which the cura of Quiche affirmed to Mr. Stephens he had seen,... | |
 | Frederick Albion Ober - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 692
...and the Gulf of Mexico. .... Within its depths, far off on some unknown tributary of the Usumacinta, the popular tradition of Guatemala and Chiapas places that great aboriginal city, with its white walls shining like silver in the sun, which the cura of Quiche affirmed he had seen with his own eyes... | |
 | 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 794
...Squier, an eminent authority on Central America, speaking of this territory, thus alludes to the subject: "Within its depths, far off on some unknown tributary...places that great aboriginal city, with its white walls shining like silver in the sun, which the cura of Quiche affirmed he had seen with his own eyes... | |
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... superstition. And we know, also, that the remnants of the ancient Itzaes, Lacandones, Choles, and Manches, those indomitable Indian families who successfully resisted the force of the Spanish arms, still find a shelter in its fastnesses, where they... 