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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL. 



crossed, on a rude bridge of logs, a broad river, memo- 

 rable for the killed and wounded thrown into it in Alva- 

 rado's battle with the Quiche Indians, and called the 

 " River of Blood." Two leagues beyond we came in 

 sight of Quezaltenango, standing at the foot of a great 

 range of mountains, surmounted by a rent volcano con- 

 stantly emitting smoke, and before it a mountain ridge 

 of lava, which, if it had taken its course toward the city, 

 would have buried it like Herculaneum and Pompeii. 



