Mr. Ranking on the Rums of Palenque. 153 



represented with devices, like those of the Mexican kings. These 

 circumstances, with Votan's history on the Medal, point out, as 

 clearly as evidence can prove, that Amaquemacan is the Province 

 of Chiapa, and not in Asia or the North of America. — Dr. Ca- 

 brera, p. 58. . ■ '. 



Remark, — ^There is nothing in this tower to show a different 

 architecture from the Peruvians and Mexicans. A fire-temple 

 in Persia is of superior architecture, but has, like the above, 

 only a door, and no window ; and it is also accompanied with 

 bas-reliefs and tombs {Sir R. K. Porter's Travels* i. 562.) The 

 houses in Thibet have no windows, and are entered by a ladder, 

 just like Casa Grande, built by the Toltecs, N. lat. 29° by 

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XIII. — A trtail highly' Ind fantastically deicorated ; he has the 

 long-head, armour upon his shoulders, jewels and ear-covers. 

 His helmet is surmounted with a bird's head, with a fish in the 

 beak ; three more fish decorate the head-dress, as if for trophies ; 

 and there is in the border-writing an ugly, rather flat, head, with 

 a fish upon it, to denote its nation or tribe *. There is a small 

 idol, as a kneeling human figure, with a fabulous beast's head, 

 and another such head at the girdle of the man; these heads are 

 possibly meant for those of the wolf. 



Remark. — The Persians name the natives of the ancient 

 Gedrosia, Mahiser, or fish-heads, being somewhat similar to 

 a marine monster, besides which they lived wholly on fish ; 

 (they are the ichthyophagi, through whose territory Alexander 

 returned from India.) This country was conquered by Zaga- 

 tai, son of Genghis Khan, in 1222. He destroyed the city of 

 Tiz, and passed the winter at Quelanger, near the Indus ; and 

 as it belonged to Kublai, it affords a tolerably good proof that 

 there were such troops with the Japanese expedition, and aLo 

 of the modern origin of some of the people near to, or of Pa- 

 lenque. Kublai purposely weakened all his conquests by 

 recruits for the reduction of China ; and as he subdued that 

 empire in one great battle near Canton, in 1280 ; with the sur- 

 plus of his immense army he made the attempt on Japan, in 

 1283. — See BibliothPque Orientale, «* Mahiser." Petis de la 

 Croix, p. 336. Wars and Sports, p. 508. 



* See the plate, E, 



