APPENDIX. 



Having mentioned in the preceding pages efforts to introduce 

 into this country some of the antiquities therein described, the 

 author considers it proper to say that, immediately on his re- 

 turn home, a few friends, whose names he would have great 

 pleasure in making known if he were at liberty to do so, under- 

 took to provide the sum of $20,000 for the purpose of carrying 

 that object into effect. Under their direction, the author wrote 

 to his agent at Guatimala, to purchase the ruins of Quirigua, or 

 such monuments as it might be considered advisable to remove, at 

 a price beyond what would have been accepted for them when 

 he left Guatimala ; but, unfortunately, in the mean time, a notice 

 taken from Mr. Cathervvood's memoranda, and inserted by the 

 proprietors in a Guatimala paper, had reached this country, 

 been translated and copied into some of our own journals, and 

 one eulogistic paragraph, probably forgotten as soon as written^ 

 was sent back to Guatimala, which gave the proprietor such 

 an exaggerated notion of their value that he refused the offer, 

 From vague conversations with foreigners who had never seen 

 and knew nothing of them, he conceived the idea that all the 

 governments of Europe would vie with each other for their posw 

 session ; and still entertaining the foolish belief that the authoi 

 was acting on behalf of his government, said that, if the Presi- 

 dent of the United States wanted them, he must pay $20,000 for 

 them ; in the mean time, he resolved to wait for offers from 

 England and France. By the last advices he was still under the 

 same hallucination. 



In regard to Palenque, the author has just received a letter 

 from Mr. Russell, enclosing four documents brought to him by 

 Mr. Pawling, which, translated so far as the manuscripts can be 

 made out, are as follows : 



