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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL. 



represented in the engraving opposite. Below, 

 rocking on the waves, was a small canoa, with our 

 host then in the act of getting on board a turtle. 

 It was the wildest and grandest scene we had 

 looked upon in our whole journey. 



The steps which led to the building are in good 

 preservation, and at the foot is a platform, with the 

 ruins of an altar. The front, on one side of the door- 

 way, has fallen. When entire it measured twenty- 

 eight feet, and it is fifteen feet deep. On the top is 

 a cross, probably erected by the fishermen. The in- 

 terior is divided into two corridors, and in the wall 

 of that in front are three small doorways leading to 

 the inner corridor. The ceiling had the triangular 

 arch, and throughout the hand of the builders on 

 the mainland could not be mistaken, but on the 

 walls were writings which seemed strangely famil- 

 iar in an aboriginal building. These inscriptions 

 were, 



D. Doyle, 1842. A. C. Goodall, 1842. 



H. M. Ship Blossom. 

 11th October, 1511. Corsaire Frances (Chebek) le Vengeur, 

 Capt. Pierre Liovet ; 



and wafered on the wall on separate cards were the 

 names of the officers of the Texan schooners of war 

 San Bernard and San Antonio. 



At the distance of a few hundred feet was anoth- 

 er building about fourteen feet square, having four 

 doorways, with steps on three sides, dilapidated, and 



