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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL. 



dian who had a tobacco patch in the neighbourhood, 

 we were entirely alone. This Indian held an um- 

 brella over Mr. Gather wood's head to protect him 

 from the sun, and, while making the drawing, sev- 

 eral times he was obliged by weakness to he down 

 and rest. I was disheartened by the spectacle. Al- 

 though, considering the extent of illness in our par- 

 ty, we had in reality not lost much time, we had 

 been so much embarrassed, and it was so disagree- 

 able to be moving along with this constant liability 

 to fever and ague, that here I felt very much dis- 

 posed to break up the expedition and go home, but 

 Mr. Gather wood persisted. 



The plate opposite represents the front of this 

 building. It is one hundred and fifty-four feet in 

 front and twenty feet seven inches in depth. It dif- 

 fered in form from any we had seen, and had square 

 structures rising in the centre and at each end, as 

 seen in ruins in the engraving ; these were called 

 towers, and at a distance had that appearance. 

 The facades of the towers were all ornamented with 

 sculptured stone. Several of the apartments had 

 tobacco leaves spread out in them to dry. In the 

 centre, one apartment was encumbered with rubbish, 

 cutting off the light from the door, but in the obscu- 

 rity we saw on one of the stones, along the layer in 

 the arch, the dim outline of a painting like that at 

 Kewick ; in the adjoining apartment were the re- 

 mains of paintings, the most interesting, except those 

 near the village of Xul, that we had met with in the 



