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ter hard work in the sun, and, parched with thirst, 

 were obliged to wait till we could send an Indian 

 to the hacienda, a distance, going and returning, of 

 three miles. 



Very soon after our arrival our attention and in- 

 quiries were directed particularly to this subject, 

 and we were not long in satisfying ourselves that 

 the principal supply had been drawn from aguadas, 

 or ponds, in the neighbourhood. These aguadas 

 are now neglected and overgrown, and perhaps, to a 

 certain extent, are the cause of the unhealthiness of 

 Uxmal. The principal of them we saw first from 



the top of the House of the Dwarf, bearing west, and 

 perhaps a mile and a half distant. We visited it 

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