74 INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL. 



The following engraving represents this painting. 

 It exhibits a rude human figure, surrounded by hiero- 



glyphics, which doubtless contain the whole of its 

 story. It is 30 inches long by 18 inches wide, and 

 the prevailing colour is red. From its position in the 

 wall, it was impossible to draw it without getting it 

 out and lowering it to the ground, w^hich I was anx- 

 ious to accomplish, not only for the sake of the draw- 

 ing, but for the purpose of carrying it away. I had 

 apprehensions that the proprietor would make ob- 

 jections, for both he and the Indians had pointed it 



