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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL. 



Perhaps, like the arch of Titus, which at this day 

 spans the Sacred Way at Rome, it was erected to 

 commemorate a victory over enemies. 



These were all the principal remains on this side 

 of the camino real ; they were all to which our In 

 dian guides conducted us, and, excepting two men 

 tioned hereafter, they were all of which, up to that 

 time, any knowledge existed ; but on the other side 

 of the camino real, shrouded by trees, were the 

 trembling and tottering skeletons of buildings which 

 had once been grander than these. 



